Warren Harding: “We avoided controversy and recorded accomplishment.”

It is a pity we have the mischief makers who are ever adding to the burdens of distrust, but we do have them and in 1921 they were busy in our land and in the East, exciting suspicion and ill feeling.

We have come thus far, and thus fortunately, through the most difficult period of reconstruction that we have ever known.

Something in your golden gateway has impelled me to speak to you of the foreign relations of our republic. Happily it is not a message of anxiety, but one of satisfaction and rejoicing.

History has yet to record another like expression of trust by one nation in the fairness of another.