The success of NATO has been measured by many yardsticks.

It is a willingness to leave forever those national rivalries which so often led to the useless squandering of lives and treasure in war.

A place of respect and responsibility will await any ally who decides to return to the common task.

We see it not as an alliance to make war, but as an alliance to keep peace.

Some say that new circumstances in the world today call for the dismantling of this great organization.

No one today can doubt the necessity of preventing war.

They didn't come to Washington to be rulers. They came here to be servants and hopefully to be doers.

It is a question of heart and mind.

War has been deterred not only because of our integrated military power, but because of the political unity of purpose to which that power has been directed and bent.

Each believes, of course, in the dignity and rights of every American citizen.

Governor Bryant comes to Washington not to dictate, but to cooperate; not to force, but to assist.

Some diplomat no doubt will launch a heedless word and lurking war leap out.

It has been proved true that \one sword keeps another in the sheath.\

We will urge that those principles of joint and common preparation be extended wherever they can be usefully applied in the Atlantic Alliance.

Farris Bryant has come to Washington -- at great personal sacrifice -- to help us try to achieve those goals.

Since I came back from New York today I have thrown four or five things out of my basket and said, 'Send that over to Farris Bryant.'

The complex task of creating and maintaining a merchant marine adequate to our needs for peacetime commerce, and sufficient for defense purposes, requires the efforts of government, management and labor and the support of all Americans.

As this Nation's economy continues to expand, we will continue to need ships—fast, modern descendants of the famous 'Clippers'—to carry our products to the far corners of the earth and return with the raw materials essential to our…