Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1961 - Presidents

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Page 277 - Necessitous men are not free men." People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made. In our day these economic truths have become accepted as self-evident. We have accepted, so to speak, a second Bill of Rights under which a new basis of security and prosperity can be established for all, regardless of station, race or creed.
Page 351 - Having concern for the urgency of conserving and prudently utilizing its natural resources, the Government of the United States regards the natural resources of the subsoil and sea bed of the continental shelf beneath the high seas but contiguous to the coasts of the United States as appertaining to the United States, subject to its jurisdiction and control.
Page 151 - That they recognize the necessity of establishing at the earliest practicable date a general international organization, based on the principle of the sovereign equality of all peace-loving states, and open to membership by all such states, large and small, for the maintenance of international peace and security.
Page 331 - The terms of the Cairo Declaration shall be carried out and Japanese sovereignty shall be limited to the islands of Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu, Shikoku and such minor islands as we determine.
Page 179 - As its immediate important task, the Council shall be author180 ized to draw up, with a view to their submission to the United Nations, treaties of peace with Italy, Rumania, Bulgaria, Hungary and Finland, and to propose settlements of territorial questions outstanding on the termination of the war in Europe.
Page 191 - Membership in the United Nations is open to all other peace-loving states which accept the obligations contained in the present charter and, in the judgment of the organization, are able and willing to carry out these obligations.
Page 186 - Zones: (a) 15 percent of such usable and complete industrial capital equipment, in the first place from the metallurgical, chemical and machine manufacturing industries as is unnecessary for the German peace economy and should be removed from the Western; Zones of Germany, in exchange for an equivalent value of food,. coal, potash, zinc, timber, clay products, petroleum products, and such other commodities as may be agreed upon. (b) 10 percent of such industrial capital equipment as is unnecessary...
Page 215 - Government the following message on behalf of the Governments of the United States, the United Kingdom, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and China...
Page 183 - Germany should be directed towards the decentralization of the political structure and the development of local responsibility. To this end : (i) Local self-government shall be restored throughout Germany on democratic principles and in particular through elective councils as 184 rapidly as is consistent with military security and the purposes of military occupation; (ii) All democratic political parties with rights of assembly and of public discussion shall be allowed and encouraged throughout Germany...
Page 350 - America, do hereby proclaim the following policy of the United States of America with respect to the natural resources of the subsoil and sea bed of the continental shelf.

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