Evening star., 1945-10-27

NEW YORK.-NAVY DAY ON
line of New York'S famed skyli
these units of thes United Sta
mandy and Southern France: Coral
Sea, Midway, Guadalcanal and the
Solomons, Tarawa, Saipan, Guam,
the Philippine Sea, Leyte Gulf, Two
Jima and Okinawa. Nothing which
the enemy held on any coast was
safe from its attack.
Now we are in the process Of de-
mobilizing our naval force. We are
laying up ships. We are breaking
up aircraft squadrons. We are roll
ing up bases and releasing officers
and men. But when our demobili-
zation is all finished as planned,
the United States will still be the
greatest naval power on earth.
In addition to that naval power,
We shall still have one of the most
powerful air forces in the world.
And just the other day, SO that on
short notice we could mobilize a
powerful and well-equipped land,
sea and air force, I asked the Con-
gress to adopt universal training.
Why do we seek to preserve this
powerful naval and Air Force, and
establish this strong Army Reserve?
Why do we need them?
We have assured the world time
and again-and I repeat it now
that we do not seek for ourselves
one inch of territory in any place
in the world. Outside of the right to
establish necessary bases for our
own protection, we look for nothing
which belongs to any other power.
Four Reasons for Power.
We do need this kind of armed
might, however, and for four prin-
cipal tasks:
First, our Army, Navy and Air
Force, in collaboration with our
Allies, must enforce the terms of
peace imposed upon our defeated
enemies.
Second, we must fulfill the mill
tary obligations which we are un-
dertaking as member of the United
Nations organization-to support a
lasting peace, by force if necessary.
Third. we must cooperate with
other American nations to preserve
the territorial integrity and the
yooJif;ooI ioJoy,arJooc of the m tiopc
of the Western Hemisphere.
Fourth, in this troubled and un-
certain. world, our military forces
must be adequate to discharge the
fundamental mission laid upon them
by the Constitution of the United
States-to provide for the common
defense" of the United States.
These four military tasks are d.
rected not toward war-not toward
conquest-but toward peace.
We seek to use our military
strength solely to preserve the peace
of the world. For we now know that
that is the only sure way to make
our own freedom secure.
Basis of Foreign Policy.
That is the basis of the foreign
policy of the people of the United
States.
The foreign policy of the United
States is based firmly on funda-
mental principles of Righteousness
and justice. In carrying out those
principles we shall firmly adhere to
what we believe to be right; and we
shall not give our approval to any
compromise with evil.
But we know that we cannot at
tain perfection in this world over
night. We shall not let our search
for perfection obstruct our steady
progress toward international CO.
operation. We must be prepared to
fulfill our responsibilities as best we
can, within the framework of our
fundamental principles, even though
we recognize that we have to oper-
ate in an imperfect world.
Let me restate the fundamentals
of that foreign policy of the United
States:
1. We seek no territorial expan-
sion or selfish advantage. We have
no plans for aggression against any
other state, large or small. We have
no objective which we need clash
with the peaceful aims of any other
nation.
2. We believe in the eventual re-
turn to sovereign rights and self
government to all peoples who have
been deprived of them by force.
3. We shall approve no territorial
changes in any friendly part of the
world unless they accord with the
freely expressed wishes of the people
concerned.
4. We believe that all peoples who
are prepared for self lf-government
should be permitted to choose their
own form of government by their
own freely expressed choice, with
out interference from any foreign
source. That is true in Europe,
in Asia, in Africa, as well as in
the Western Hemisphere.
5. BY the combined and co-opera-
tive action of our war Allies, we
snail help the de1eated enemy states
establish peaceful democratic gov
ernments Of their own free choice.
And we shall try to attain a world
in which Nazism, Fascisin and mill
tary aggression cannot exist.
6. We shall refuse to recognize
any government imposed upon any
nation by the force OF any foreign
power. In some cases 1t may be
impossible to prevent forceful i'm
position of such q government. But
the United States will not recognize
any such government.
Z. We believe that all nations
should have the freedom of the seas
and equal rights to the navigation
of boundary rivers and waterways
and Of rivers and waterways which
pass through more than one
country.
8. We believe that all states which
are accepted in the society Of ma
! tiOnS Should have Access m enl1al