I think we are going to have to meet the problems we face here at home if we are going to successfully convey an image of vitality and strength abroad

You cannot stand aside and see America's interest deteriorate throughout the world just by inaction.

Never for a moment has the United States entertained such a thought.

The Declaration of the Soviet Government of October 30, 1956, which restated the policy of non-intervention in internal affairs of other states, was generally understood as promising the early withdrawal of Soviet forces from Hungary.

We are always keeping forces in the Mediterranean, as you well know.

Today we meet to discuss methods of normalizing and increasing the contacts between our nations in many fields.

To assure orderly consideration of trade problems arising between nations is vital to our own interests as a great trading nation and to the interests of those joined with us in the cause of freedom.

And then they go ahead to name, I think a half a dozen countries where great benefits to the United States have sprung from this program.

We Americans have constantly pledged that we will never permit aggression.

If this one [Austrian Treaty] indicates what they are apparently trying to make it appear to indicate, well, then, I am going to try to find out whether it is absolutely sincere.

I really believe that in this whole field of international trade, we must think of it as the greatest instrument or weapon in the hands of the diplomat as he strives to promote peace.

The necessary expenditures to equip and maintain United States armed forces of air and land and sea at strategic points beyond our borders are never called aid.

There isn't much difference between us at home and abroad

But the Democratic Party has a forward-looking domestic program to match its forward-looking foreign policy.

I do not care to comment on that situation until I have a chance to discuss the matter with the Secretary of State.

A broad harmony of view has emerged from these discussions; for we recognize that the overriding need to counter the Communist threat in that area transcends such divergencies as there are in our policies toward China.

We are pledged in this country to support the United Nations and help make it work.

I hope that his mission will be successful.