Americana Holiday 2022 - 62 - “We Will Help Them If They Will Help Us. This, I Have Long Believed, Should Be The Motivating Force Behind Our Entire Foreign Policy”: Rare Annotated Autograph And Typed Speech Delivered By Kennedy During The 1952 Massachusetts Senate Campaign, Regarding The Korean War 58. KENNEDY, John F. Autograph and Typed Manuscript Campaign Speech. No place, 1952. Nine sheets of wove paper: four pages typed with extensive holographic emendations in pencil by Kennedy; six pages in pen and pencil in an unidentified hand; one page in pencil in Kennedy’s hand; pp. 11. $16,500. Autograph and typed manuscript speech, annotated by Kennedy and with over a page in his handwriting, delivered during the 1952 Massachusetts Senate campaign that ultimately unseated Henry Cabot Lodge, answering charges by Lodge that he did not take the Korean War seriously enough, in which he mentions his own personal experience in World War II and the possibility of provoking World War III and atomic warfare. The speech reads in part, with a few changes in Kennedy’s hand noted: “In the last two days, my opponent Mr. Lodge has made charges against me of such a serious personal nature they cannot go unchallenged. On Saturday, in New Bedford, Mr. Lodge said that Mr. Kennedy does not take Korea seriously… No American is indifferent to the Korean War or any other war in which our boys and the boys of our friends and neighbors have fought and died. War, with all its sorrows and miseries, has a deep personal meaning for me. I saw it at close range in the waters of the South Pacific during the early days of World War II… Great sorrow was visited upon my own family. My older brother, Joe, dear to me as only an older brother can be [italics struck through by Kennedy] lost his life in volunteer missions over the English Channel in 1944… I have been to Korea but to the best of my knowledge [italics added by Kennedy] I have never seen any record that Mr. Lodge was ever there….” The following portion of the speech—the last page—is in Kennedy’s hand, in pencil: “I think we have every right to expect that the other members of the United Nations should bear their proportionate share of the burden of the fighting. The only way this can be done is by insisting that all of the assistance that we give them should be on a reciprocal basis—that we will help them if they will help us. This, I have long believed, should be the motivating force behind our entire foreign policy.” Three leaves with unobtrusive remnants of archival tape along upper edge. Minor wear with some small tears to one page. Very good condition. Scarce and desirable.
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