No single action, no matter how significant, will achieve peace.

This knowledge has made us determined to do everything we can to insure that peace is maintained.

We have shared our moral and material strength in the present task of rebuilding from the devastation of war.

I want it very clearly understood that on my part there is no celebration on this day.

I have tried my level best to carry that burden in the interests of all the people of the country.

We must continue to work patiently and carefully, advancing with practical, realistic steps in the light of circumstances and events as they occur, building the structure of peace soundly and solidly.

The board shall report its finding to the President with respect to the said dispute within thirty days from the date of this order.

No change, except by agreement, shall be made by the Railway Express Agency, Inc., or its employees in the conditions out of which the said dispute arose.

I hereby create a board of three members, to be appointed by me, to investigate said dispute.

I am confident that I speak not only for myself but for the people of the United States in expressing appreciation for your message on this first anniversary of the signing of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1948.

We in the United States are proud that we have had a part in this great mutual effort.

In the history of the world there has never been a republic, a monarchy, or a totalitarian state that has met the situation as we have: we have offered to give up the greatest weapon in the history of the world for the welfare of mankind.

And I hope that every one of you young Congressmen and Senators will study the history of the world, from Greece and Rome, and France and Britain, when they were on top--and Germany, Germany made a mistake in two instances--and understand…

I had to make a decision back in July 1945, and I had to make that decision on the basis of the welfare not only of this country but of our enemy country.

Harry, don't you go to the Senate with an inferiority complex. You sit there about 6 months, and you wonder how you got there. And after that you wonder how the rest of them got there.

We have offered to surrender the most powerful thing we have under our control, if the world will come in and set up a control of that weapon which will prevent its use for the destruction of mankind.

Now, Therefore, I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim the week commencing May 22, 1949, as World Trade Week

May I offer a toast to the Atlantic Treaty and its success.