The President's News Conference
12/10/1947
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International relations have traditionally been compared to a chess game in which each nation tries to outwit and checkmate the other.
All our peoples have a common belief which we call democracy.
The lawlessness of one nation may threaten the very existence of the law on which all nations depend.
In our domestic civil life we long ago recognized that the alternative to the rule of the strong was law established by the community.