This will take the strong efforts of each of us individually, and all of us acting together through voluntary organizations and our governments.

Our Department of State has already invited representatives from more than 60 nations to participate in this international conference being sponsored by the National Foundation.

When cases of infantile paralysis were reported among our occupation troops in Germany last year, your National Foundation went into action immediately.

Accordingly the time within which compliance with conditions and formalities prescribed with respect to renewal of registrations under section 12 of the aforesaid act of February 20, 1905, as amended, may take place is hereby extended with…

I ask you to give--and give generously-to the March of Dimes.

Your generosity this year will decide the fate of thousands more.

I am convinced that we have scarcely scratched the surface and that, as a Nation, we can make rapid progress in the immediate future.

Denmark accords substantially equal treatment in this respect to trade-mark proprietors who are citizens of the United States.

This ruthless enemy, infantile paralysis, endangers a vital treasure--the health of our children.

Our people want good health and are willing to work to achieve it.

I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States of America, under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the aforesaid act of July 17, 1946, do find and proclaim that with respect to trade-marks of nationals of Denmark…

Upon being informed by the Secretary of Agriculture of the impossibility of effecting a voluntary agreement to conserve grain by the distilling industry, I instructed him to recommend to the Congress the granting of authority to exercise…

The grain situation can best be summarized by saying that every bushel of grain which can be saved between now and the harvest of the new crops this summer and fall will exert an immediate and direct influence either on grain supplies…

Under these circumstances, definite steps to conserve grain and reduce all nonessential uses of grain in the United States were, and are, required in the national interest.

Upon the basis of the foregoing information, I recommend that the Congress provide for the exercise, at least until October 31, 1948, of the powers, authority, and discretion conferred upon the President by title III of the Second War…

Upon the basis of information furnished by the Secretary of Agriculture, I have determined that there is at present a critical shortage of grain which threatens to become even more serious during the next few months; that such shortage…

If the allocation powers with reference to grain are continued through October 31, 1948, the Department of Agriculture estimates that the sum of $52,000 will be required for administrative expenses, including the salaries of additional…

Therefore, pursuant to section 6(a) of that act, I am submitting a proposed measure for the conservation of grain.