US Presidency
1953

Israel can be made the country of milk and honey as it was in the time of Joshua. There is a plateau in Ethiopia some 6,000 to 8,000 feet high, that has 65,000 square miles of land just exactly like the corn belt in northern Illinois. Enough food can be raised there to feed a hundred million people. There are places in South America, places in Colombia and Venezuela and Brazil, just like that plateau in Ethiopia, places where food could be raised for millions of people. These things can be done, and they are self liquidating projects. If we can get peace and safety in the world under the United Nations, the developments will come so fast we will not recognize the world in which we now live. This is our dream of the future, our picture of the world we hope to have when the Communist threat is overcome. I've talked a lot tonight about the menace of communism, and our fight against it, because that is the overriding issue of our time.