Diplomacy Is Letting Someone Else Have Your

It Has Too Often Been Too Easy For Rulers And Governments To Incite Man To War.

The Choice, However, Is As Clear Now For Nations As It Was Once For The Individual: Peace Or Extinction.

Today The Predatory State, Or The Predatory Group Of States, With Power Of Total Destruction, Is No More To Be Tolerated Than The Predatory Individual.

And I Have Lived Since - As You Have - In A Period Of Cold War, During Which We Have Ensured By Our Achievements In The Science And Technology Of Destruction That A Third Act In This Tragedy Of War Will Result In The Peace Of Extinction.

As We Enter Our Centennial Year We Are Still A Young Nation, Very Much In The Formative Stages. Our National Condition Is Still Flexible Enough That We Can Make Almost Anything We Wish Of Our Nation. No Other Country Is In A Better Position Than Canada To Go Ahead With The Evolution Of A National Purpose Devoted To All That Is Good And Noble And Excellent In The Human Spirit.