Harry Truman

No change, except by agreement, shall be made by the Railway Express Agency, Inc., or its employees in the conditions out of which the said dispute arose.

The board shall report its finding to the President with respect to the said dispute within thirty days from the date of this order.

I hereby create a board of three members, to be appointed by me, to investigate said dispute.

I am confident that I speak not only for myself but for the people of the United States in expressing appreciation for your message on this first anniversary of the signing of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1948.

We in the United States are proud that we have had a part in this great mutual effort.

We have offered to surrender the most powerful thing we have under our control, if the world will come in and set up a control of that weapon which will prevent its use for the destruction of mankind.

And I hope that every one of you young Congressmen and Senators will study the history of the world, from Greece and Rome, and France and Britain, when they were on top--and Germany, Germany made a mistake in two instances--and understand…

Harry, don't you go to the Senate with an inferiority complex. You sit there about 6 months, and you wonder how you got there. And after that you wonder how the rest of them got there.

I had to make a decision back in July 1945, and I had to make that decision on the basis of the welfare not only of this country but of our enemy country.

In the history of the world there has never been a republic, a monarchy, or a totalitarian state that has met the situation as we have: we have offered to give up the greatest weapon in the history of the world for the welfare of mankind.

Now, Therefore, I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim the week commencing May 22, 1949, as World Trade Week

I think your children and your grandchildren will tell you that, in the days to come.

We do not believe that there are blind tides of history which sweep men one way or another.

There are those who claim that this treaty is an aggressive act on the part of the nations which ring the North Atlantic.

To suggest the contrary is to slander our institutions and defame our ideals and our aspirations.

We rededicate ourselves to that obligation, and propose this North Atlantic Treaty as one of the means to carry it out.

I think we have really passed a milestone in history today.

In taking steps to prevent aggression against our own peoples, we have no purpose of aggression against other peoples.

Even without that agreement, which we still hope for, we shall do as much as we can.

May I offer a toast to the Atlantic Treaty and its success.

It is a simple document, but if it had existed in 1914 and in 1939, supported by the nations who are represented here today, I believe it would have prevented the acts of aggression which led to two world wars.

The pact will be a positive, not a negative, influence for peace, and its influence will be felt not only in the area it specifically covers but throughout the world.

The treaty we are signing here today is evidence of the path they will follow.

In this pact, we hope to create a shield against aggression and the fear of aggression--a bulwark which will permit us to get on with the real business of government and society, the business of achieving a fuller and happier life for all…

What we are about to do here is a neighborly act.