This remarkable accomplishment should not delude us into any false sense of security.
We must be better armed and better equipped than we are today if we are to be protected from the dangers which still face us.
I have just returned from Wake Island, where I had a very satisfactory conference with Gen. Douglas MacArthur.
We discussed Japan and the need for an early Japanese peace treaty.
There is no substitute for personal conversation with the commander in the field who knows the problems there from firsthand experience.
All around the world the free nations have been gaining in strength.
I am confident that these forces will soon restore peace to the whole of Korea.
We have no aggressive designs in Korea or in any other place in the Far East or elsewhere.
We can all be proud of them.
We are going ahead in dead earnest to build up our defenses.
I have come back from this conference with increased confidence in our long-range ability to maintain world peace.