Kekkosen uran huipentuma

Heh-heh, ihan huvittaa tuollainen tunteen palo (tarkoitan vastaustasi).

Ote presidentti Gerald Fordin puheesta:


…The people of all Europe and, I assure you, the people of North America are thoroughly tired of having their hopes raised and then shattered by empty words and unfulfilled pledges. We had better say what we mean and mean what we say, or we will have the anger of our citizens to answer.

While we must not expect miracles, we can and we do expect steady progress that comes in steps -- steps that are related to each other that link our actions with words in various areas of our relations.

Finally, there must be an acceptance of mutual obligation. Detente, as I have often said, must be a two-way street. Tensions cannot be eased by one side alone. Both sides must want detente and work to achieve it. Both sides must benefit from it.

Mr. Chairman, my colleagues, this extraordinary gathering in Helsinki proves that all our peoples share a concern for Europe's future and for a better and more peaceful world. But what else does it prove? How shall we assess the results?

Our delegations have worked long and hard to produce documents which restate noble and praiseworthy political principles. They spell out guidelines for national behavior and international cooperation.

But every signatory should know that if these are to be more than the latest chapter in a long and sorry volume of unfulfilled declarations, every party must be dedicated to making them come true.

These documents which we will sign represent another step -- how long or short a step only time will tell -- in the process of detente and reconciliation in Europe. Our peoples will be watching and measuring our progress. They will ask how these noble sentiments are being translated into actions that bring about a more secure and just order in the daily lives of each of our nations and its citizens.

The documents produced here represent compromises, like all international negotiations, but these principles we have agreed upon are more than the lowest common denominator of governmental positions.

They affirm the most fundamental human rights: liberty of thought, conscience, and faith; the exercise of civil and political rights; the rights of minorities.

They call for a freer flow of information, ideas, and people; greater scope for the press, cultural and educational exchange, family reunification, the right to travel and to marriage between nationals of different states; and for the protection of the priceless heritage of our diverse cultures.

They offer wide areas for greater cooperation: trade, industrial production, science and technology, the environment, transportation, health, space, and the oceans.

They reaffirm the basic principles of relations between states: nonintervention, sovereign equality, self-determination, territorial integrity, inviolability of frontiers, and the possibility of change by peaceful means.

The United States gladly subscribes to this document because we subscribe to every one of these principles.

Almost 200 years ago, the United States of America was born as a free and independent nation. The descendants of Europeans who proclaimed their independence in America expressed in that declaration a decent respect for the opinions of mankind and asserted not only that all men are created equal but they are endowed with inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

The founders of my country did not merely say that all Americans should have these rights but all men everywhere should have these rights. And these principles have guided the United States of America throughout its two centuries of nationhood. They have given hopes to millions in Europe and on every continent….


….History will judge this Conference not by what we say here today, but by what we do tomorrow -- not by the promises we make, but by the promises we keep….


Puhe kokonaisuudessaan:
http://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/library/speeches/750459.htm

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Tässä hyvä esimerkki, jossa esittelytekstin kirjoittanut toimittaja tulee esiin monumentaalisen ylivoimaisena tuomarina käsityksellään Kekkosen ajan parlamentarismista:

http://www.yle.fi/elavaarkisto/?s=s&g=1&ag=4&t=133&a=1696

Kekkosen ajan parlamentarismi


Presidentti Urho Kekkosen kaudella suomalainen parlamentarismi oli koetuksella. Hallitusten piti nauttia presidentin luottamusta eduskunnan sijaan.

Oppositio tukahdutettiin viimeistään vuoden 1958 yöpakkasissa ja vuoden 1961 noottikriisissä.

Kekkosen hyväksi vuodeksi 1973 runtattu poikkeuslaki oli vallankäytöstä räikeintä. Lopulta lähes kaikki eduskuntaryhmät saatiin kääntymään Kekkosen kannalle.

Vuonna 1975 maassa järjestettiin ennenaikaiset vaalit ja runtattiin kokoon kansallinen hätätilahallitus työttömyyden takia. Työttömyys ei kuitenkaan laskenut.

1970-luvulla kärkevin oppositiopuolue oli Veikko Vennamon johtama Suomen maaseudun puolue.

Suurista puolueista kokoomus jätettiin yleensä hallituksien ulkopuolelle. Yleisin hallituspohja oli nk. kansanrintama, jossa olivat suuret vasemmistopuolueet SDP ja SKDL sekä maalaisliitto.

Teksti: Paavo Rytsä

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