Evening star., 1946-01-21

may face us can be met by the CO.
operation of all of us in furthering
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eminent ogram program
which will further national and
international well-being.
The year 1945 brought with it the
final defeat of our enemies. There
lies before us now the work of build
ing a just and enduring peace.
Our most immediate task toward
that end is to deprive our enemies
completely and forever of their
power to start another war. OF
even greater importance to the
preservation of international peace
is the need to preserve the wartime
agreement of the United Nations
and to direct it into the ways of
peace.
On October 27, 1945, I made, in
New York City, the following public
statement of my understanding of
the fundamental foreign policy of
the United States. I believe that
policy to be in accord with the
opinion OF the Congress and of the
people Of the United States. I be-
lieve that that policy carries out
our fundamental objectives.
l. 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 need clash
with the peaceful aims of any other
nation.
2. We believe in the eventual re-
turn of sovereign rights and self
governments 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.
Urges Self Government.
= 4. We believe that all peoples who
are prepared for self-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.
S. BY the combined and CO.
operative action of our war Allies,
we shall help the defeated enemy
states establish peaceful democratic
governments of their own free
choice. And we shall try to attain
a world in which Naziism, Fascism
and military 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 it may be
impossible to prevent forceful i'm
position of such a government. But
the United States will not recognize
any such government.
7. We believe that all nations
should have the freedom of the
seas and equal rights to the navi-
cation of boundary rivers and
waterways and of rivers and water
ways which pass through more than
one country.
Wants Equal Access to Materials.
8. We believe that all states which
are accepted in the society of ma
tions should have access on equal
terms to the trade and the raw
materials of the world.
9. We believe that the sovereign
states Of the Western Hemisphere,
without interference from outside
the Western Hemisphere, must
work together as good neighbors
in the solution of their common
problems.
10. We believe that full economic
collaboration between all nations
great and small, is essential to the
Improvement of living conditions
all over the world, and to the estab-
lishment of freedom from fear and
freedom from want.
IL. We shall continue to strive to
promote freedom of expression and
freedom Of religion throughout the
peace-loving areas of the world.
IL. We are convinced that the
preservation of peace between ma
tions requires q United Nations
Organization composed Of all the