02/29/1948
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"We welcome you, and I am glad that you can be here with us."
"When an international organization of this sort can meet in the various countries where it is represented, it creates better understanding and better feeling between the peoples of those countries."
"I am sure, therefore, that none of the countries which are members of the Fund will use the present difficulties to justify restrictions on trade and exchange which are not actually needed to further ..."
"The free nations of the world have joined together in a great cooperative effort to protect themselves against aggression."