Mr. Prime Minister, you and your company are most welcome here, and I hope all will join me in drinking to His Majesty, the King.

The announcement followed a meeting with Senators and Congressmen from the northwest.

The Secretary of Agriculture would be specifically instructed to report to him by October 15 on both firm and interim increases in national forest allowable cuts to assure a continuation of timber sales at or beyond the record levels…

I see no reason why the Commonwealth concept, if that is the desire of the people of Puerto Rico, should not be fully developed as a permanent institution in its association with the United States.

The achievements of the Puerto Rican people in this short period have been remarkable.

I am confident that I speak for the people of the United States as well as their government in expressing my pride and pleasure at Puerto Rico's achievements.

Puerto Rico has furnished an example to the world of the benefits that can be achieved by close collaboration between a larger and a smaller community within the framework of freedom and mutual agreement.

I am in full sympathy with this aspiration.

Finally, the Presidents of Ecuador and the United States renewed the expressions of their faith in the principles of the Charter of the United Nations and that of the Organization of American States, proclaiming their loyal and…

The Presidents reiterated their adherence to the principles of liberty which unite the Western World in its struggle against international communism and other despotic doctrines which attempt to destroy the essential values which shape the…

Presidents Kennedy and Arosemena reaffirmed their faith in the Alliance for Progress as an instrument by which the American Republics and peoples can achieve the conditions necessary for their advancement within a framework of developing…

They rejected the use of force for the settlement of international disputes and agreed upon the necessity to adhere to the principles of law which are applicable to the settlement of international controversies in seeking solutions to…

This is not an easy year for presidents in the Western Hemisphere, but I think they should judge the tensions and the difficulties and the turmoil against what we are trying to do, which is the most extraordinary effort to build democratic…

We are very reluctant to test.

And because we believe that our fate is so inextricably tied to that of Ecuador and our sister republics and our future and our freedom and our security, we are most gratified to have the opportunity to counsel with our distinguished guest…

So I think that it is very appropriate that you should come here and we should consider together how best we can make this hemisphere an inspiration for all those who wish to be free.

This country has committed itself along with Ecuador and our sister republics to a great Alliance for Progress, which is a common effort by all of us to provide a decent life for the people of our hemisphere, an opportunity to work, to be…

We have made no progress recently on a Berlin settlement.

Your wife has been quoted as having said that you could name all the Presidents of the United States in order, which not even some Presidents of the United States can do.

Effective July 1, 1962, Executive Order No. 10945 of May 24, 1961, and all delegations, redelegations, rules, regulations, orders, licenses, and other forms of administrative action under said order which were in effect on June 30, 1962…

Well, the tests that we carried out were due to the breach of the moratorium by the Soviet Union last fall.

Mr. President, I know that a good many Americans, and I am sure citizens of your country also, are somewhat concerned when they see the difficulties which some of our countries--our sister republics are having in this hemisphere.

The United States will not devalue its dollar.

It will take time, but time is not necessarily our friend.

So I hope that those who look to the South as the South looks to us, and may on occasions get discouraged, realize that we are involved in one of the great adventures in the history of this hemisphere and, indeed, in the history of the…