I Further Value This Gift As It

If We Will Maintain Our Hope And Confidence In The Genius Of Our People, They Will Work Out This Problem, And Their Ability And Industry Will Bring Us Back To Normal Conditions.

I Know That Military Alliances And Armament Have Been The Reliance For Peace For Centuries, But They Do Not Produce Peace; And When War Comes, As It Inevitably Does Under Such Conditions, These Armaments And Alliances But Intensify And Broaden The Conflict.

There Has Not Been A War In South America For Fifty Years, And I Have Every Confidence That The Countries Of Central And South America Are Deeply In Earnest In The Maintenance Of Peace.

The Fact That So Many Of Your People Are Today Residents And Citizens Of The United States, Lending Their Influence To Our Civic And Economic Life, Which Has Meant So Much To Our Development.

Adequate Defense Has Been The Catchword Of Every Militarist For Centuries.