The serious crisis which compelled Congressional action last year has not abated for these workers, but the protection provided by the law will shortly expire unless the Congress acts.

Today, weekly benefits are often too low in relation to lost wages to enable the worker to meet his basic and non-deferrable expenses.

I believe it is important that it does so.

FIFTEEN years ago today, President Truman, in a historic declaration, announced the purpose of the United States to help the Turkish people defend their freedom and independence.

We are ever mindful of the vital role which the Turkish nation has played and continues to play in the NATO defensive shield.

We cannot, with the expiration of the present Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation program, abdicate our responsibility to these workers.

Although the February unemployment figures showed a heartening decline in the number out of work there are still 4,543,000 workers who need help.

Unless prompt action is taken workers who exhaust their regular benefits after March 31, 1962, will no longer be able to receive any unemployment compensation.

It will provide a very effective protection for our older citizens.

I believe this program to be vitally important.

The imminent expiration of the Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation program at a time when unemployment is still high and there are large numbers of long-term unemployed makes enactment of the permanent improvements I have…

This legislation is a vital part of the programs I believe essential to assure sustained prosperity and to strengthen our manpower base.

The historical bonds of friendship which unite our nations have been strengthened by President Truman's historic decision, and I am confident that, in the future, these ties will grow ever stronger.

The merits of the proposals for permanent legislation I have recommended are well-established.

I believe that with this kind of public support, that the Congress of the United States can enact this legislation this year.

We could not permit this to happen.

We don't seek satellites but friends.

What we hope is that our example of effort over the period of 15 years since the Marshall plan will inspire others to join with us, particularly those who are now prosperous, in an effort to permit newly independent states to develop and…

We want to maintain, both for economic and political reasons, the closest association with Europe, and stretching the other way with Japan.

The United States thus can take satisfaction from the outcome of the Geneva negotiations.

There is no one here who would suggest that the need for your services are less critical today than they were then.

I think all of us have a public obligation, all of us owe some of our lives and some of our effort to the advancement of the interests of our society, particularly when our society bears such heavy burdens as it does here and around the…

This is a free society and a free economy, and we do believe that freedom and, really, progress is best served by permitting people to advance their private interests.

It is not a matter which should separate us on the basis of party, but is a matter which I think concerns us all as Americans and as people who believe in the development of our country.

Our balance of payments problem would disappear overnight if it were not for the effort which we are making in Europe and other places around the world to permit those areas to maintain their freedom.