It seeks to promote worldwide progress and better standards of living.

This Charter points down the only road to enduring peace.

I urge ratification. I urge prompt ratification.

The choice before the Senate is now clear.

It seeks to prevent future wars.

No international document has been drawn in a greater glare of publicity than has this one.

This order shall become effective July 1, 1945.

WHEREAS after an investigation I find and proclaim that the plants and facilities of the Texas Company, located in and around Port Arthur, Texas, are equipped for the production of crude oil and its products that are required for the war…

Possession, control, and operation of any plant or facility, or part thereof, taken under this Order shall be terminated by the Petroleum Administrator within 60 days after he determines that the productive efficiency of the plant…

NOW, THEREFORE, by virtue of the power and authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States, including Section 9 of the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 (54 Stat. 892), as amended by the War Labor Disputes…

By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 605 of the Federal Employees Pay Act of 1945, I hereby approve the following regulations prescribed by the Civil Service Commission

This order shall take effect at the close of business on June 30, 1945.

You have absolutely disproved that maxim, that a prophet is not without honor save in his own country.

And unless we lead the way, there will be no peace in the world.

I must be physically able to do that; and I can't possibly see everybody and talk to everybody in Jackson County and go back to Washington and convince the Senate that they ought to ratify this treaty.

First, we must win the war with Japan, and we are winning it.

Then, we must win the peace in the world.

It is one world, as Willkie said.