ABSTRACT
The abolition of abject poverty is a primary responsibility that falls upon us Americans and the other industrially advanced peoples. The United States is embarrassed by the surpluses of food supplies it stores or wastes, and agricultural productivity could be vastly stepped up in the backward countries. The preliminary obstacle is the inertia, the lack of imagination, the lack of concern, on the part of the peoples who have the resources requisite for the accomplishment of the great liberation. In a word, there is lacking a concerted sense of responsibility. On the international scale there must be sustained and concerted action to provide the apparatus and the capital that will enable the great poverty-stricken areas to reach economic self-sufficiency, in accordance with a plan that will assure the effective utilization of these new resources while still enabling them to retain their self-respect and their cultural integrity.
