The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-10-28

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an instrument for a just and last
ing peace-and who save his life
in the effort-Franklin D. Roose.
welt.
/ The roll call of the battles of
|. this fleet reads like sign posts
circling the globe-on the road to
final victory. North Africa, Sicily,
Italy, Normandy, and Southern
France; Coral Sea, Midway, Qua
dalcanal, and the Solomons Tara
wa, Saipan, Guam, the Philippine
Sea, Leyte Gulf; Two Jima and
Okinawa. Nothing which the enc
my held on any coast was safe
from it's attack.
Now We are in the process of
demobilizing our Naval force. We
are laying up ships. We are break
ing up aircraft squadrons. We are
rolling up bases, and releasing Of
ficers and men. But when our de-
mobilization is all finished as plan
ned, the United States will still be
the greatest Naval power on
earth.
Why Do We Need Them?
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
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the congress to adopt universal
training.
Why do we seek to preserve this
powerful Naval and Air Force,
and establish this strong Army re-
serve? 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 fcr
our own perfection, We look for
nothing which belongs to any 9TH
er 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 a member of the
United Nations Organization - to
support lasting peace, by force
if necessary.
Third, we must cooperate with
other American nations to pre-
serve the territorial integrity and
the political independence of the
nations of the Western hemis-
phere.
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 6tates-to "provide for the
common defense" of the United
States.
These four military tasks are
directed not toward war-not to-
ward 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 Sc
cure.
That is the basis of the foreign
policy of the people of the United
States.
The foreign policy of the Unit
ed States is based firmly on fun
damental principles o righteous
ness 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.
Foreign Policy
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 operate in an imperfect
world.
Let me restate t h fundamen-
tails of that foreign policy of the
United States:
l. We seek no territorial ex-
pansion or selfish advantage. We
have no plans for aggression
against any other state, large or
small. We have no objective which
need clash with the peaceful aims
of any other nation.
2. We believe in the eventual re-
turn of 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 peo-
pie concerned.
4. We believe that all peoples
who are prepared for self-govern-
ment should be permitted to choose
their own form Of government by
their own freely expressed choice.
without interference from any for
elgn source. That is true i'm El1rono