President. if the Council of Europes next such ingathering of the democratic clansour next quorum call for free societies"Strasbourg. II." if you willoccurred under the Councils auspices possibly in the developing world to dramatize our commitment to extending practical support and assistance to democratic nations wherever they evolve? It has often been observed. correctly. so that we in the United States are a "nation of nations." our citizens having come to us over the past centuriesoften as political or religious refugees from the whole gamut of oppressive regimesin order to find that margin of liberty so admirably summarized in many of the essential points noted in the Councils draft of a "Democratic Manifesto." Our heritage as a nation and our present commitments. therefore. oblige us to avow among our beliefs a dedication to the universality of the democratic faith. We hold this truth to be selfevident. in short. that democracys extension to the developing world remains neither a luxury nor an impossibility. We are dedicated. in fact. to demonstrating the inevitability of democratic development whenever a people finds itself capable of determining without coercion its own destiny.
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