The President's News Conference
02/20/1946
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The only assured way of maintaining the Army and the Navy at their required strengths during the Fiscal Year 1948 is through resort to Selec...
In our domestic civil life we long ago recognized that the alternative to the rule of the strong was law established by the community.
This is a simple, fundamental truth.
The wholehearted acceptance of this doctrine by all of us is the keystone of the Inter-American System.