We are the only country able to provide that help.

Nevertheless, Turkey now needs our support.

The seeds of totalitarian regimes are nurtured by misery and want.

Greece is in desperate need of financial and economic assistance to enable it to resume purchases of food, clothing, fuel and seeds.

The United States must supply this assistance.

If we falter in our leadership, we may endanger the peace of the world--and we shall surely endanger the welfare of this Nation.

The free peoples of the world look to us for support in maintaining their freedoms.

I feel that the whole problem should be carefully studied in all its phases by a group of citizens equipped by background and training to counsel the Government and assist it in formulating a program to strengthen our merchant marine.

I believe we can liquidate the Selective Service system, except for its records.

It would not be the part of wisdom to destroy such records until their value has disappeared.

I recommend the establishment of an 'Office of Selective Service Records.'

The Report represents a major contribution to the sum of knowledge in this field and deserves serious consideration by Government, labor, management and the public.

This study should consider existing legislation in the fields of social insurance, minimum wages, fiscal and tax policies, and other laws that affect the inauguration or operation of guaranteed wage plans.

The Department of Labor continues the compilation of information on guaranteed wage plans, and makes its findings available.

Guaranteed wage plans should not be the subject of legislative action.

I therefore urge my fellow countrymen to be mindful of the Army's needs

There is no means by which we can better honor our heroic dead than by our support of their living comrades

Now, Therefore, I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim Monday, April 7, 1947, as Army Day