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It is important, however, that the Peace Corps be advanced not as an arm of the Cold War but as a contribution to the world community.

In presenting it to other governments and to the United Nations, we could propose that every nation consider the formation of its own peace corps and that the United Nations sponsor the idea and form an international coordinating committee.

We should hope that peace corps projects will be truly international and that our citizens will find themselves working alongside citizens of the host country and also volunteers from other lands.

In any case, our Peace Corps personnel should be offered as technician helpers in development projects of the U.N. and other international agencies.