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in > RE: COWMER RS my. TON WEEK ‘ The United Nations was in large part designed to preserve the kind of world stability that the League of Nations was supposed to preserve, stable regimes friendly to capitalist development. It was clear, however, from the very beginning that the United Nations by itself could not fulfill this considerable role. And in large part, the United States had pursued a policy of achieving Stability, of achieving favoril:le ccenditions for economic expansion for world capitalism our.tide the United Nations. The Marshall] Plan, fer cxample, following the Second World War was not conceived in herms of 2 reble gesture to help our European friends, It was conceived in terms of protecting western European capitalism from the threat of Socialists. It was sold to. the Americoun business community with the argument that a healthy capitalist Ferope was essential to a healthy capitalist America. ‘Mie United Staten o1lso proceeded with a system of alliareces, Shortiv after WerJd War I1, containment became official American policy. Centainnrent was rationalized in terms of defending free world agaip.t aggressive Soviet imperjalism. In fact, con= tainment was designed to preserve a world system favorable to the interests and favorable to the prosperity of the United States. In =ddition to the system of alliances, the United States has sctively supported counter-revolutionary activities where and wherever revolutionary activities toward national liberation, Vietnam, Latin America, elsewhere, have threatened to upset the kind of world system, the kind of world stability that the United Statas desires. 4 : lay and order is net just a domestic issue, but in terms Of American foreign policy tlan, it is currently a world issue. As HUBERT HUMPHREY remazked in 1966, “The day that this nation does not honer its commitments in Vietnam and elsewhere, it is on that day that the whole fabtic of international law and order is torn apart and breaks down." I think at this peint, I'll stop. I've probably gone on too long already. I had intended to talk a bit about the very close connection between American economic expansion since the 134