Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-04-07
are convalescing from wounds In
fiicted by our common enemy.
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are convalescing from wounds In
fiicted by our common enemy.
Must Share More Than Surplus.
Food is Europe's most critical
need. 1t Is not enough to share
our surpluSes, for to share SURPRISES
is not really TO share at all. No
worthy American will hesitate to
reduce his own consumption of food
when the food so released will avert
starvation abroad.
Next to food, Europe's greatest
need is for machinery and raw
materials to rehabilitate her trans
portation systems. Her mines, and
her factories. We have been supply
ing these products to Europe on
long-term credit and we shah con-
tinue to do so. Billions of dollars
for reconstruction have been made
available by the Congress through
the Export-Import Bank ana
through the International Bank.
We seek to lay the groundwork
of a world trading system which
will strengthen and safeguard the
peace. We want no return to the
kind of narrow economic nationalism
which poisoned international rela-
tons and undermined living
standards between the two World
Wars.
The Congress Is now considering,
and hope will soon approve, the
financial agreements with Great
Britain. These arrangements have
not been made merely to support a
faithful ally. They are Of vital i'm
portance to our own country as
means of opening the channels of
world trade to American enterprise
We shall work to achieve equal
opportunity in world trade, because
closed economic blocs in Europe or
any place in the world can only
lead to impoverishment and isola-
ton of the people who inhabit it.
We shall press for the elimination
of artificial barriers to international
navigation, in order that no nation,
by accident of geographic location,
shall be denied unrestricted access
to seaports and international water
ways.
Plans Hemisphere Defense.
The American republics propose
to settle differences between the ma
tons OF the Western Hemisphere as
good neighbors by consultation In
the common cause of peace and ma
tlonal Well-being - consultation In
which all of them will have equal
representation. The United States
intends to join with other soyer-
elgn republics of America in a re-
glonal pact to provide a common
defense against attack.
Perhaps the greatest challenge
which the war has bequeathed to us
is the control of atomic energy so
that this vast new force may not
destroy, but instead may serve man
kind. Our country has joined with
all the United Nations in a deter
mined effort to devise international
action which will achieve these
ends. We are pressing on stead
tasty in this task. We realize that
w iiOot VI 1IlS IL W pOlltlCdl l1IldPl-
nation as great as the scientific
genius which unleashed this new
force. The same answering de-
termination and effort which pro-
duced the release of atomic energy
can and will enable mankind to live
without terror and reap untold bene-
fits from this new product of mans
genius.
am not pessimistic about the
future, have confidence that there
is no international problem which
cannot be solved if there are the wifi
and the strength to solve 1t through
the United Nations which we have
all created.
! We attained overwhelming victory
IN close union with the free and
peaceful nations of the world. In
the same kind of union with them.
and with the help of the same heroic
men and women who fought the war
and whom we honor today, we can
attain lasting peace.