The good-neighbor policy specifically includes the Doctrine of Nonintervention.

The efforts of the War Department to reach the desired goal of an entirely volunteer Regular Army are worthy of the maximum support on the part of the Administration, the Congress and the people.

It is a common failing of many people to complain of hardships and overlook their good fortune.

The function of the state is to preserve and promote human rights and fundamental freedoms.

This is a simple, fundamental truth.

Together we must live and together we must prosper.

I recommend that no extension of Selective Service at this time be made, but with the understanding that the War and Navy Departments will request the re-enactment of a Selective Service Act at a later date if they are unable to maintain…

The good-neighbor policy, which guides the course of our inter-American relations, is equally simple.

The lawlessness of one nation may threaten the very existence of the law on which all nations depend.

Because of my belief that the peoples of the world have peace as a common objective, I refuse to be discouraged by apparent difficulties.

These requirements are absolute, and we must not divest the War and Navy Departments of the means of meeting any material shortages.

The only assured way of maintaining the Army and the Navy at their required strengths during the Fiscal Year 1948 is through resort to Selective Service.

We do have tragic difficulties then.

International relations have traditionally been compared to a chess game in which each nation tries to outwit and checkmate the other.

Events in one country may have a profound effect in other countries.

The effort to achieve collective world security has been concurrent with the growing acceptance of the Doctrine of Nonintervention.

The United States and Mexico are working together for the mutual benefit of their peoples and the peace of the world.

We have a good-neighbor policy in common and, as a result of this sincere application of that policy, we form a good neighborhood.