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<br />the welfare af the cauntries in which they aper-
<br />ate. Tliis is essential. We have and will hald a
<br />p,?werful cammercial pasitian autside aur barders.
<br />Exercising wise judgment, the American mer-'
<br />chants and miners and manufacturers, ,the men
<br />who. aperate airlines and refineries, factories, and
<br />communications, can contribute to the ~ountries in
<br />which they work as much ar mare thall,they take
<br />aut far American, prafit. If their wark is to. be
<br />permanent, they must do. this; and the pracess
<br />becames, an essential part af, American foreign
<br />relatians, The day of the explaiter is gone, and
<br />exploitation can be' no. part af American palicy,
<br />The success af an American enterprise autside the
<br />United States will be measured even mare by the
<br />warking-canditians it creates, by the health and
<br />hames af its emplayees, and by the grawing capac-
<br />ity af the peaple with which it warks, than by the
<br />mere size af its prafit-accaunt piling up in banks
<br />in New Yark ar Chicago.. This is a task far in-
<br />dustrial statesmanship-an idea which is steadily,
<br />growing amang American businessmen. But if
<br />the task is to. be dane, the generatian caming of age
<br />must be taught that fareign business and fareign
<br />trade is the art af cantributing to. the foreign
<br />cauntry rather tha;' the art af seizing an exploiter's
<br />profit.' ,
<br />, In this respect we have learned much and can
<br />learn mare from aur American neighbars. Weare
<br />learning fram men like Guani af Uruguay; from
<br />Padilla, the Fareign Minister of Mexico; fram
<br />Aranha, the Fareign Minister af Brazil; from men
<br />like the great Venezuelan, Lapez Cantreras; and
<br />I hape we are also. learning fram the writers and
<br />thinkers, in gavernment and aut, throughaut Cen-
<br />tral and Sauth America. '
<br />Peace, when it carnes, will nat last lang if it is
<br />mere.!y a grab-bag in which each natian ar graups
<br />within each natian seek to. take reckless advantage
<br />af their assaciates and their neighbars. It was just
<br />this canditian af affairs which so. weakened Eurape
<br />that Hitler and a graup af Nazi criminals cauld
<br />attempt the' canquest of a cantinent as a preface
<br />to. the plunder of the planet. '
<br />America's pasition in the past-war world will be
<br />strong. It will 'rest in great measure an the brav-
<br />ery and dev'atian af many millians af yaung men
<br />and many hundred thausands af YOling wamen
<br />serYing in aur armed farces. ,But its cantinued
<br />existence will rest upan the strength, the ideals,
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<br />, and the faith af these yaung men and wamen and
<br />athers caming into. maturity in the demacratic way
<br />af life.
<br />We have heard a great deal about the difficulties
<br />af America. It has became fashianable, indeed,
<br />in same circles to. emphasize them~ ' Surely ,we have
<br />many weaknesses and many faults. Yet, man far
<br />man and woman for woman, America has done
<br />better by her children than any ather cauntry.
<br />Her faith has been in individual effart, individual
<br />respansibility, and individual achievement,
<br />This is the great heritage of the West. We are
<br />co.-heirs af Eurapean civilizatian, of th~ great rev-
<br />olutians which were Greek and then Raman; which
<br />were Christian and Cathalic; which were the
<br />Renaissance and the Refarmatian; which de-
<br />strayed feudalism in the time af the French Reva-
<br />lutian. This has been a cantinuaus revalutian
<br />tawarg greater achi'evement and appartunity i'ar
<br />the individual, and we have steadily maintained
<br />that faith against peaple who. wauld unduly exalt
<br />the state, and against peaple who. wauld enthrane
<br />the cartel. We have believed in freedam, inspired
<br />by kindliness, and have accepted restraint so that
<br />freed am sJlOuJd be grenter, '
<br />'Ve shall pass same years in a warld af strident
<br />vaices, It cannat be atherwise, far catastrophe is
<br />steadily farcing a .great readjustment which will
<br />end by being world-wide. In this readjustment
<br />America has much to. say, far she is the greatest
<br />, champian af the kindly revalutian which has been
<br />the dominant note in aur national histary.
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<br />CONFIRMATIONS
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<br />On March 20, 1944 the Senate canfirmed the nam-
<br />inatian af Avra M, "'arrcn to. be American Am-
<br />bassadar to. Panama, Leland B. Morris to. be
<br />American Ambassadar to. Iran, Orme WilsOli. to be
<br />American Ambassadar to Haiti, Willard L. Beau-
<br />lac to. be American Am bassadar to Paraguay, Ellis
<br />O. Briggs to be American Ambassadar to. the
<br />Daminican Republic, Lauis G. Dreyfus, Jr., to be
<br />American Minister to Iceland, Gen. Thomas Hal-
<br />camb to. be American Minister to. the Union af
<br />Sauth Africa, and Kenneth S, Patton to be Amer-
<br />ican Minister to. New Zealand.
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