CO-OPERATION WITH OTHER NATIONS

Chronicle (Levin), 13 April 1946, Page 5

CO-OPERATION WITH OTHER NATIONS

TRIBUTE TO MR. ROOSEVELT'S IDEALS Received Friday, 10.20 p.m. WASHINGTON, April 12.^ President Truman, dedicatmg Mr Roosevelt's home grave as a nationai shrine, said: ''Mr. Roosevelt's tixougfi. was that this nation, as a good neigh bour, must play an active, intelligen. and constructive part in world aifairs. He saw clearly that we cannot coann u to live in isolation from other nations. He recognised that, above all, our hope for civilisation's future, for the futur*= of life itself, lay in the success oi United Nations. He not only recognised these truths; he also determined to do something ahout them and did. "His foreign policy called for i'air. sympathetic and iirm dealing witn otnor memhers of the family of nations. At the same time it recognised our ooaga tions to the starving and homeless ot other lands. It recognised this country's solemn duty towards nations v/hicn have heen weakened in the death struggle against tyranny. "For these principles of intfemational cooperation, we are determined to light with all our strength. We are de termined to do all within our power to make United Nations a strong, living organisation to find elfective means oi alleviating suffering and distress and to deal fairiy with all nations. These principles were the hasis of our foreign policy under Mr. Roosevelt, and they are still the hasis of our foreign policy l^rs the aftermath of the glohal war. W The overall task is difficult, hut it can he simply stated. It is to carry forward the underlying principles and policies, foreign and domestic, of President Roosevelt. Changes may he reqnired here and there to meet changing conditions, but fundamentally 'the objectives are the same."