Harry Truman

Congressional assistance in the form of new legislation is needed.

We have thrived on the energy and diversity of many peoples.

We ourselves should admit a substantial number as immigrants.

It is unthinkable that they should be left indefinitely in camps in Europe.

The only civilized course is to enable these people to take new roots in friendly soil.

The Declaration of Independence was an expression of democratic philosophy that sustained American patriots during the Revolution and has ever since inspired men to fight to the death for their 'unalienable Rights.'

The third requisite of peace is the free and full exchange of knowledge, ideas, and information among the peoples of the earth, and maximum freedom in international travel and communication.

If the nations of the world expect to live in ignorance and suspicion of each other in a state of peace, they expect what never was and never will be.

Two years ago the United States and 50 other nations joined in signing a great Declaration of Interdependence known as the Charter of the United Nations.

Our goal must be--not peace in our time--but peace for all time.

When all governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, there will be enduring peace.

A second requisite of peace among nations is common respect for basic human rights.

It is now the duty of all nations to converge their policies toward common goals of peace.

The fourth requisite of peace is that nations shall devise their economic and financial policies to support a world economy rather than separate nationalistic economies.

I wish to recommend to the Congress action enabling this Government to approve the Trusteeship Agreement for the Territory of the Pacific Islands which was approved unanimously by the Security Council of the United Nations on April 2, 1947.

I hope that the Congress may give early consideration to this matter.

I believe, therefore, that it would be only fitting, as well as in the interest of the inhabitants of the islands, that the Trusteeship Agreement should be brought into force as soon as possible.

Now, Therefore, I, Harry S. Truman,President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim and designate the sixth day of July nineteen hundred and forty-seven as John Paul Jones Bicentennial Day

Under desperate circumstances they acquitted themselves nobly.

The record of the Philippine soldiers for bravery and loyalty is second to none.

There can be no question that the Philippine veteran is entitled to benefits bearing a reasonable relation to those received by the American veteran, with whom he fought side by side.

Their assignments were as bloody and difficult as any in which our American soldiers engaged.

The lack of adequate housing marks a glaring gap in our achievements toward fulfilling the promise of democracy.

Even this inadequate law presents fewer dangers than would the complete lack of rent control.

Mr. Acheson, as a private citizen in 1940, was among those who first saw clearly the Fascist threat to our national existence.