The St. Lawrence project stirs the imagination long accustomed to majestic distances and epic undertakings.

Canada and the United States have reached the point where we no longer think of each other as 'foreign' countries.

Our goal is a vast expansion of agriculture and industry throughout the world, with freer access to the raw materials and markets for all nations, and a wider distribution of the products of the earth's fields and factories among all peoples.

This is the peaceful way, the sensible way, and the fair way to settle problems, whether between two nations that are close neighbors or among many nations widely separated.

We think of each other as friends, as peaceful and cooperative neighbors on a spacious and fruitful continent.

Our trade with each other is far greater than that of any other two nations on earth.

With such friends we face the future unafraid.

We in Canada and the United States are justifiably proud of our joint record, but we claim no monopoly on that formula.

For the courtesy of appearing before you, as for other courtesies, I am sure I am largely indebted to my good friend, Prime Minister Mackenzie King.

Now, Therefore, I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States of America, do hereby find and declare, on the basis of the investigation and report of the United States Tariff Commission, that changed circumstances require the modification of the said proclamation of September 5, 1939

This proclamation shall become effective on the fifth day after the date of its signature

Accordingly, pursuant to the said section 11 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933, as amended, I hereby modify the said proclamation of September 5, 1939

Our obligation, as citizens of the strongest nation in the world, is to lead the peoples of the earth toward the goal of lasting peace.

Unpreparedness on the part of his opponents precipitated his decision to march into Poland in 1939.

Peace cannot be built on a foundation of human want.

The only security for the United States, or for any other nation, when the alternative to peace is death and destruction, lies in the abolition of war.

A healthy citizenry is the most important element in our national strength.

Japan struck at Pearl Harbor because she thought the United States was too weak to fight back.