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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Under desperate circumstances they acquitted themselves nobly.

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

Mr. Acheson, as a private citizen in 1940, was among those who first saw clearly the Fascist threat to our national existence.

Even this inadequate law presents fewer dangers than would the complete lack of rent control.

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

I have chosen the lesser of two evils.

In his relations with the Congress, Mr. Acheson fostered a responsive relationship between the Executive and Legislative Branches of the Government in the field of foreign affairs.

A basic weakness of the rent control provisions of the Act is the so-called 'voluntary' increase of 15 percent in cases where the landlord and tenant enter into a lease that will continue until December 31, 1948.

He brought to the councils of government a long view and a genius for bold design typified by the Acheson-Lilienthal plan for international control of atomic energy.

It is clear that this legislation marks a step backward in our efforts to protect tenants against unjustified rent increases arising out of war conditions.

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