The Century of the Common Man (1942)

The Century of the Common Man (1942)
Henry Wallace
We who live in the United States may think there is nothing very revolutionary about freedom of religion, freedom of expression, and freedom from the fear of secret police. But when we begin to think about the significance of freedom from want for the average man, then we know that the revolution of the past 150 years has not been completed, either here in the United States or in any other nation in the world. . . .
I say that the century on which we are entering . . . can be and must be the century of the common man. Everywhere the common man must learn to build his own industries with his own hands in a practical fashion. Everywhere the common man must learn to increase his productivity. . . . No nation will have the God-given right to exploit other nations. Older nations will have the privilege to help younger nations get started on the path to industrialization, but there must be neither military nor economic imperialism. The methods of the nineteenth century will not work in the people's century. . . . As their masses learn to read and write, and as they become productive mechanics, their standard of living will double and treble. . . .
Those who write the peace must think of the whole world. There can be no privileged peoples. We ourselves in the United States are no more a master race than the Nazis. And we can not perpetuate economic warfare without planting the seeds of military warfare. We must use our power at the peace table to build an economic pace that is just, charitable, and enduring.
-Wallace's wartime speech foreshadowed

A) postwar decolonization.
B) policies based on collective security.
C) containment.
D) the military industrial complex.