Address in Louisville, Kentucky
09/29/1948
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The wholehearted acceptance of this doctrine by all of us is the keystone of the Inter-American System.
We do have tragic difficulties then.
We have a good-neighbor policy in common and, as a result of this sincere application of that policy, we form a good neighborhood.
Because of my belief that the peoples of the world have peace as a common objective, I refuse to be discouraged by apparent difficulties.