It is now the duty of all nations to converge their policies toward common goals of peace.

Two years ago the United States and 50 other nations joined in signing a great Declaration of Interdependence known as the Charter of the United Nations.

The third requisite of peace is the free and full exchange of knowledge, ideas, and information among the peoples of the earth, and maximum freedom in international travel and communication.

If the nations of the world expect to live in ignorance and suspicion of each other in a state of peace, they expect what never was and never will be.

The Declaration of Independence was an expression of democratic philosophy that sustained American patriots during the Revolution and has ever since inspired men to fight to the death for their 'unalienable Rights.'

A second requisite of peace among nations is common respect for basic human rights.

When all governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, there will be enduring peace.

The fourth requisite of peace is that nations shall devise their economic and financial policies to support a world economy rather than separate nationalistic economies.

I hope that the Congress may give early consideration to this matter.

I wish to recommend to the Congress action enabling this Government to approve the Trusteeship Agreement for the Territory of the Pacific Islands which was approved unanimously by the Security Council of the United Nations on April 2, 1947.

I believe, therefore, that it would be only fitting, as well as in the interest of the inhabitants of the islands, that the Trusteeship Agreement should be brought into force as soon as possible.

Now, Therefore, I, Harry S. Truman,President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim and designate the sixth day of July nineteen hundred and forty-seven as John Paul Jones Bicentennial Day

Under desperate circumstances they acquitted themselves nobly.

There can be no question that the Philippine veteran is entitled to benefits bearing a reasonable relation to those received by the American veteran, with whom he fought side by side.

The record of the Philippine soldiers for bravery and loyalty is second to none.

Their assignments were as bloody and difficult as any in which our American soldiers engaged.

He exerted his distinguished advocacy to rally his fellow citizens in favor of the delivery of American destroyers to beleaguered Britain.

The lack of adequate housing marks a glaring gap in our achievements toward fulfilling the promise of democracy.