I am transmitting herewith for your consideration a suggested Joint Resolution providing for United States membership and participation in the World Health Organization.

I am sure that it will make a substantial contribution to the improvement of world health conditions through the years.

There shall be a loyalty investigation of every person entering the civilian employment of any department or agency of the executive branch of the Federal Government.

This order shall become effective as of November 1, 1946, and shall be published in the Federal Register.

The danger of immediate and complete decontrol in the face of continuing domestic and world scarcities is too great for this nation to undertake at this time.

Foreign demands for these supplies are therefore extremely large.

Our international responsibilities cannot be fulfilled without this machinery.

I therefore, recommend that the authority derived from the Export Control Act be extended for a period of one year beyond its present expiration date, June 30, 1947.

I urge upon the Congress prompt action in extending this authority.

Uncontrolled exports of food products would result in a marked increase in the already substantial burden of living costs borne by the American people.

This Government must continue its control over the export of products in critically short supply here and abroad, in order to protect the economy of the United States as well as to discharge our international responsibilities.

Export control is an important instrument in carrying out the purpose of these loan programs.

We will continue to remove export controls as rapidly as the supply situation permits.

In my message to the Congress on January 31, 1947, concerning the extension of specified parts of the Second War Powers Act, I stated that it was desirable to delay any communication on the subject of the control of this country's exports…

This country is the great undamaged center of industrial production to which the whole world looks for materials of every kind.

The free peoples of the world look to us for support in maintaining their freedoms.

The United States must supply this assistance.

The seeds of totalitarian regimes are nurtured by misery and want.