The Dutch citizens helped their Jewish friends, otherwise known as Anne Frank, and her family and friends because they were friends of Otto Frank which is Anne Franks's father. The Dutch friends helped because they knew that it wasn't right to let their friends be killed by German Nazis.
He inclinations the American individuals to maintain a strategic distance from long-term inviting relations or competitions with any country, contending that connections with or enmity toward other countries will as it were cloud the government's judgment in its outside policy.
Harper makes a connection between marriage and slavery when she mentions it that it “should only e a mere matter of bargain and sale…”
The poem describes Yuri Gagarin's first human trip into outer space (April 12, 1961) - and suggests that this flight was some kind of a triumph for humankind (Vostok's capsule clambers / Up the tall victory column).