Harry Truman

No other nation is willing and able to provide the necessary support for a democratic Greek government.

We are the only country able to provide that help.

The United States must supply this assistance.

We must keep that hope alive.

The assistance that I am recommending for Greece and Turkey amounts to little more than 1/10 of 1 percent of this investment.

The seeds of totalitarian regimes are nurtured by misery and want.

The United States has received from the Greek Government an urgent appeal for financial and economic assistance.

The free peoples of the world look to us for support in maintaining their freedoms.

I feel that the whole problem should be carefully studied in all its phases by a group of citizens equipped by background and training to counsel the Government and assist it in formulating a program to strengthen our merchant marine.

It would not be the part of wisdom to destroy such records until their value has disappeared.

I recommend the establishment of an 'Office of Selective Service Records.'

I believe we can liquidate the Selective Service system, except for its records.

The Department of Labor continues the compilation of information on guaranteed wage plans, and makes its findings available.

Guaranteed wage plans should not be the subject of legislative action.

This study should consider existing legislation in the fields of social insurance, minimum wages, fiscal and tax policies, and other laws that affect the inauguration or operation of guaranteed wage plans.

The Report represents a major contribution to the sum of knowledge in this field and deserves serious consideration by Government, labor, management and the public.

I therefore urge my fellow countrymen to be mindful of the Army's needs

There is no means by which we can better honor our heroic dead than by our support of their living comrades

Now, Therefore, I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim Monday, April 7, 1947, as Army Day

Together we must live and together we must prosper.

Because of my belief that the peoples of the world have peace as a common objective, I refuse to be discouraged by apparent difficulties.

We have a good-neighbor policy in common and, as a result of this sincere application of that policy, we form a good neighborhood.

We do have tragic difficulties then.

My country, in common with all the American Republics, pledged itself at the Conference of Montevideo in 1933 and the Conference of Buenos Aires in 1936 to observe the Doctrine of Nonintervention.

The lawlessness of one nation may threaten the very existence of the law on which all nations depend.