This order shall become effective on August 1, 1949.

As provided by section 10 of the Railway Labor Act, as amended, from this date and for thirty days after the board has made its report to the President, no change, except by agreement shall be made by the Southern Pacific Company (Pacific…

And I am saying to you, which is better, to spend 3, or 4, or 5 billions a year for peace, or to spend a hundred billion dollars a year for another war?

We hope that an enduring peace could be built on these ties of friendship.

Now it is absolutely necessary that we assume the leadership among the democracies of this world, so that there will be enough force in this world to maintain the peace.

We believe that the people of the world should have the facts, not only about ourselves, but about all the things that concern them most deeply.

Our organization is one of the great contributors to mutual understanding in this great country of ours.

The kind of peace we seek cannot be won at a single stroke or by a single nation.

We are going to maintain the peace and make the United Nations a going and militant organization for the welfare of the world as a whole.

In this country, foreign policy is not made by the decisions of a few.

In 1945, on the 12th day of April, we were in the midst of two of the most terrible wars that have ever been fought.

Had we failed to assume that responsibility, the only thing left for us would be to crawl into our shells and prepare for the destruction of the world, and ourselves with it.

On the 8th day of May--to be accurate the 7th day of May, because it was not announced until the 8th, a day which happened to be my birthday--the German dictatorship folded up.

The major decisions in our foreign policy since the war have been made on the basis of an informed public opinion and overwhelming public support.

All I have asked is that we take one-third--less than one-third--of the cost of cancellation of $60 billion worth of contracts, and revive Europe and Asia for peace.

I felt, when we had adopted that document, and when hostilities had ceased, that we would arrive at that peace for which we all had prayed since 1941.

It is necessary that we do assume that responsibility for the welfare of the world in generations to come.

Public opinion in a country such as ours cannot be ignored or manipulated to suit the occasion.