Excerpts from the Press Conference
08/26/1940
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I congratulate the Canadian people on the successful achievements of free institutions through three score and ten years of Confederation.
We rejoice with you in your past and your present and in the promise which the future holds.
It is an example of what can be done where fear, hostility, and aggressive intention are absent.
Countries can develop an enlarged and mutually beneficial trade between each other.