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202. Memorandum of Conversation

re is an intense desire for independence, for liberation, for freedom from outside domination. This is a positive development, and we take it into account. Another factor is the shift of power away from a few to many other nations—Venezuela, Mexico, Nigeria, India, Indonesia, and so on. The security of the U.S. is increasingly based on having good relations with such countries. These three factors are favorable to us—first the strength of the U.S., second the increasing desire of peoples for independence, and third the global dispersal of power. Two other factors are not so favorable. One is t…