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Question SA-13. Here is the text reference (p. 163/7):
This formidable neighbor's scorn and lack of knowledge is the greatest
threat to our America. Because the moment of closer contact is upon us,
it is urgent that our neighbor get to know us, and soon, so that they will
not scorn us. Ignorance may lead her, perhaps, to greed with regard to us.
But respect, through getting to know us, would preclude this from happening.
We have to have faith in the good side of man and be careful of man's bad
side. We must allow the better side to emerge and prevail over the worse.
If not, the bad will prevail. Nations should have a pillory for those who
provoke useless hate, and another for those who do not tell the truth soon
enough. ...
Nor should we assume, through some parochial antipathy, that the blond
people of the continent are inherently and fatally evil because they do
not speak our language, because they do not live as we do, because their
political scars are different from ours, or because they do not highly regard
men who are quick-tempered or swarthier. Nor should we think less of them
because they, from their lofty but still unsure eminence, may look down
on those who, less favored by History, are still struggling to establish
republics; nor should we hide the facts surrounding the problems that must
be solved for peace; we must study them in order to reach the urgently required
tacit union of the continental soul. The unanimous anthem is already heard;
the present generation is now carrying striving America forward along the
path shown by our founding fathers; from the Rio Bravo to the Strait of
Magellan, the Great Sower has scattered from the wings of the condor the
seeds of the new America!