As I have said time and again here to the young men who represent you here in the White House, that I didn't care much what was said on the editorial page if I got the facts on the front page!

It has been a most difficult 2 years in arriving at a solution of the problems with which the world is faced.

We must catch up morally and internationally with the machine age.

It is a policy that I think is for the welfare of this country.

The approach in our dealing--dealings with the Russian Government--I am being very frank with you--must be an approach that is right from our viewpoint, and we have got to stand for what we believe is right.

And that is how the situation developed. It wasn't a sudden proposition that happened in 5 minutes. It had been developing ever since the Germans surrendered.

I thought the press had been extremely kind to me, and that the young men who represent you gentlemen here had done a good job of reporting.

I was exceedingly happy that this country had a press that could say and do what it pleased under the law.

And another thing I want to say to you gentlemen is that the fact that we have a bipartisan foreign policy is due to the fact that Cordell Hull, way back in the early part of his administration, began calling in the members of the Foreign…

I always try, so far as I am capable, to give a truthful answer, and as nearly as I can to state the facts.

We want world peace--a just peace for all concerned; and we want to see our borne fires kept burning so we can meet the obligations created by this tremendous expenditure for war.

Weapons and implements of war are material weights in the balance of peace or war and we should not be legally bound to be indiscriminate in how they are placed in the scales.

He made diplomacy a powerful weapon in support of our armed strength.

In the interest of world peace articles supplying a foreign military establishment cannot be left free from Government supervision so far as exports are concerned.

As a tribute to his effective work in bringing about the establishment of an international organization, he is now known as the 'Father of the United Nations.'

He labored unceasingly through these years to create conditions for peace.

We have committed ourselves to international cooperation through the United Nations.

With a high order of statesmanship based on deep loyalty to his country, Mr. Hull served with great distinction and selfless devotion during the years of crises and difficulties.