ON THE OCCASION of your election as President of the French Republic I extend my most sincere congratulations and best wishes.

Any other course, he indicated, would not only constitute failure to meet this obligation but would seriously jeopardize UNRRA relief programs vital to the economic and political stability of vast areas in the world.

I appreciate your fine efforts and I congratulate you upon an accomplishment which, I am sure, will contribute greatly to the efficiency of our national defense.

That is yet to be determined.

We are helping him all we can.

Mr. Acheson stated my views yesterday.

I expect to vote in the State of Missouri.

No, I have no comment to make.

No I haven't.

It has not.

I hope that we can find some way to take care of them.

That action has already been taken, I think.

It is a pleasure and a privilege to me today to pay you an official visit as the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the United States of America.

My definition of leadership is.' It is that quality which can make other men do what they do not want to do, and like it.

Don't let that worry you.

There is going to come a time now when people are going to be sorry that they ever saw a soldier or a sailor or a marine.

No, I don't think you can, because nobody can tell you exactly what date it will be.

I have no statement today to make on the Atomic Energy Commission.