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"... The spring of 1940 marks the great modem turning point in the international affairs of the United States." Thus was Presidential Assistant Mc George Bundy's prelude to his address before the 120th Commencement Exercises. Following are excerpts from that address. There is a sense in which the foreign affairs of the United States before 1940 are episodic, intermittent, unsustmned and in a measure even unreal, but from that day forward it has not been so. We have been called ... to address ourselves continuously for a quarter of a century to the obligations of great power.... We must be preoccupied not simply with the gaining and the use of this extraordinarj' power, but with the end to which it should be used, and that end beyond victor)' was peace. To many of us who ser\'ed in that war (WW II) it seemed, too easily, that victory itself would mean world peace. We did not foresee the complexities and hazards and the error of the postwai world. We thought we were forward looking when we gave our all^iance to the notion of a new world organization; when we saw and cheered the work of Franklin Roosevelt and those about him as they organized the UN So that made two steps new for our generation: the acceptance of power; McGeorge Bundy Notre Dame Alumnus, September-October, 1965 and tlie objective of peace and the responsibility' for action to acliieve it It became clear ver)' soon after the war that you could not simply wn a wctorj' or sign a peace. You had to build, and you had to build in a world torn apart by destruction and shaking with beginning hopes. And the United States, in serving its own interests, must give its attention to the interests of others. And then we found ourselves confronting a fourth continuing reality: that there are centers of power now increasing; ... that if they are not resisted they would have their own way . . .; and that if they are to be resisted the responsibility, in the first instance, must fall to the United States. Now I submit to you that the world in which you graduate is a world in which these four great facts of American Ufe are still with us. And I submit to you also that the tribulations and difficulties of 1965 are not greater than tliose through which we have come in the last 25 years. . . . We have met in the main the responsibility of having and of holding and of using the great power which comes to us by our size and strength and oiir social, economic and political success. We have been true in the main to a continuing purpose of peace and have been ready to accept the discipline of Peace "We have given respect to the fact that there are interests, hopes and purposes not the same as ours . . . ." membership in an international society. ... I think that we have given respect.. .^ to the fact that there are interests, hopes and purposes not the same as ours, that we have conducted our af- - fairs so as to permit and even encourage the diversity which the world has \ by the nature of its peoples and its _ countries and its climates, and that we < have not sought to make this an American century. In the main we have met the dial- ^ lenge where we could and as we could, posed not for us alone, but for the hopes of all free men by tlie ambitions of the communist imperialists. "* The record is by no means perfect. We have had moments of weariness and weakness, moments of division and doubt We have had debates, greater ^ debates I think than any we faced this spring. — There have been troubles along the way and there will be more to come. They come increasingly because what „ began . . . one problem at a time . . -^, has now become a mbced, continuing •» exercise. So when we look, as we must, j[at the hard problems of Santo Domingo and Saigon, we are looking at problems of power and of peace and of the interests of other men and also of the ] ambitions of the communists. And we"||j must look at them, work upon them ... all four of them ... to serve our purposes. —
Through Understanding "Between faith and knowl- X edge there is no contradiction ^ — but in an individual man faith and knowledge may be in 1 conflict . . . ." Saint Peter's sermon on Pentecost to the multitude in front of the house where the Apostles had gathered became the first manifestation of the Church — in the power of tlie Holy Spirit. The Apostles were no longer afraid, for tliey had seen the victory of their Lord. The doors, shut for fear of the Jews, were thrown open. Saint Peter, at the head of the Apostles, came out in front of the multitude, which represented all mankind. Without fear, frankly, Peter spoke about his Lord's triumph, for the Holy Spirit was within him. He enunciated to the world the meaning of Pentecost: the authorization by God of Jesus of Nazareth as Lord and Christ, and the authorization by God of all those who were going to believe in Jesus as their Lord and Christ, the authorization of the Church. Saint Luke in his Acts of the Apostles tells with some sort of pride how on that Pentecost, after Peter's conNdncing and fervent preaching, 3,000 men were baptized and joined the young Church. The history of the Church had begun — her march through the ages had started. And we are the Church — all of us who believe in Our Lord and who are united with Him through Baptism. The University of Notre Dame confers the degree of Doctor of Lnus, honoris causa on a Prince of the Church, a noted educator and biblical scholar, a shepherd whose pastoral concern embraces the world. This son of a Netherlands carpenter has himself become a builder, a fasliioncr of spiritual bridges joining men of all faitlis. He has urged the Catholic Church to ''sacrifice nonessential elements of her life that tend to confuse non-Catholics about the true nature of her unity." Early in his priestliood the future Cardinal commenced on a long career of teaching Sacred Scripture and biblical exegesis in Duldt seminaries. Before leaving the life of the seminary for the more rigorous duties of an archbishop, he made important contributions to tlie official Dutch traiulation of the Bible. A further indication of this great priest's unflagging interest in movements of intemationat scope developed after his eIe\'ation to the epiicopalc when he served as national chairman of the international Catholic peace organization, Pax Christ!. Proclaimed a Cardinal in 1960 by tlic late Pope John, he played an energetic and illuminating role in preparatory- work for the Second Vatican Council, and througho-it llie Council itself has brilliantly led and ably abetted the forces of ecumenism and the Peace of Christ. On His Eminence Bernard Jan Cardinal Alfrink Archbishop of Utrecht, The Netherlands Fr. Hesburgh Cardinal Alfrink In every one of us the Spirit of Jesus wants to live, to work, to be active. This is the task the Lord has given us through His Paraclete: to show the world, the people in the midst of whom we live, the image of the grown-up Christian, who in all circumstances of life takes God into account, who lives with God, who by his faith in the Lord Jesus and by his love for Him also tries to keep His commandments. For so the Lord has said: "If any one loves me, he wU keep my word. . . . He that loveth me not, keepeth not my words." That image of the grown-up Christian, of a good man, of a faithful Catholic, is the best preaching, the clearest manifestation of the Holy Spirit of the Lord Jesus, of His Church. If this applies to every Catholic, it applies in a special sense to the Catholic who in some way or other devotes himself to knowledge. Between faith and knowledge there is no contradiction — but in an individual man faith and knowledge may be in conflict sometimes. When a man only increases his intellectual development to win influence and social position, but forgets to fortify and consolidate his faith and to increase his religious knowledge, it may be that in such a man a gap arises between faith and knowledge, even a conflict. Faith and knowledge should not exist in a man ne.Kt to each other as if they could not exist together. Faith and knowledge must be integrated in a Christian man, must grow together into a perfect harmony. And therefore we need the light of the Holy Spirit — and in all humility we have to pray for that light. ffolre Dame Alumnus, September-October, 1965 7
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