victory of 1945. We anticipated a world of peace and cooperation. The calculated pres

ld cannot indefinitely remain in a posture of paralyzed tension, leaving forever to the aggress

ion of a new, positive foreign policy. This policy wi

he product of genuine, continuous cooperation between the executive and the legislative branc

he freedom we cherish and defend in Europe and in the America

ce in the enslavement of any people in order to purchase fancied gain for ourselves. I shall ask the Congress at a later date to join in an appropriate resolution making

Mutual security means effective mutual cooperation. For the United States, this means that, as a matter of common sense and national interest, we shall give help to other nations in the measure that they strive earne

to the effort of sustaining the security of the free world. From the jungles of Indochina and Malaya to the northern shores of Europe, they hav

to date. Only a more closely integrated economic and political system can provide the greatly increased

rasbourg Conference has testified to their vision and determination. These achievements are the more remarkable when we realize that each of them has mar

rope's leaders by informing them of the high value we place upon the earnestness of their efforts toward this goal. Real progress will be conclusive evidence to the Amer

ognize the importance of profit

and labor shortage, of agricultural areas needing machines and industrial areas needing food. Here and elsewhere we can hope that our friends wil

ate an economic environment that

elp in

reements Act under immediate study and extend it by appropriate legislation. This objective must not ignore legitimate safeguarding of domestic industries, ag

n investment abroad. This involves, as a serious and explicit purpose of our foreign po

ction of manufactured articles which are needed for mutual defense and wh

hange for what we supply, greater amounts of important raw mat