I am delighted to be here this evening.

We merely want to live in peace with all the world, to trade with them, to commune with them, to learn from their cultures, as they may learn from ours.

I ask that you give Mr. Higley your fullest measure of support and assistance and that all persons in authority in the Federal and District Government take a personal interest and extend their complete cooperation to this important…

No greater honor can come to any individual and citizen of this country than to be received in friendly fashion by a cross-section of his fellow citizens.

All of us want the institutions of America preserved.

We know we must be determined.

Our sons may stay at home, the products of our toil may be used for our schools and our roads and our churches, and not for guns and planes and tanks and ships of war.

We know we must not sacrifice principle for mere expediency.

In lieu of travel, we become stronger.

I know that Americans everywhere are the same, in their longing for peace.

To act as Chairman of the Government Unit in this important appeal, I appoint the Honorable Harvey V. Higley, Administrator of Veterans' Affairs.

I come to you, not only to understand you better, but to ask you only to support, always, those principles, to think of them and to expand them in your own mind into method, as to how we shall do it.