Address at the Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner.
03/28/1952
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These requirements are absolute, and we must not divest the War and Navy Departments of the means of meeting any material shortages.
The wholehearted acceptance of this doctrine by all of us is the keystone of the Inter-American System.
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.