Have A Good Plan, Execute It Violently,

The Pacific No Longer Represents Menacing Avenues Of Approach For A Prospective Invader. It Assumes, Instead, The Friendly Aspect Of A Peaceful Lake. Our Line Of Defense Is A Natural One And Can Be Maintained With A Minimum Of Military Effort And Expense.

The Hated System Of Land Tenure, So Contributory To General Unrest In Asia, Has Been Abolished. Every Farmer Is Now Accorded The Right And Dignity Of Ownership Of The Land He Long Has Tilled.

It Is My Earnest Hope, And Indeed The Hope Of All Mankind, That From This Solemn Occasion A Better World Shall Emerge Out Of The Blood And Carnage Of The Past...

This Does Not Mean That You Are Warmongers. On The Contrary, The Soldier Above All Other People Prays For Peace, For He Must Suffer And Bear The Deepest Wounds And Scars Of War. But Always In Our Ears Ring The Ominous Words Of Plato, That Wisest Of All Philosophers: "only The Dead Have Seen The End Of War.

Many Will Tell You With Mockery And Ridicule That The Abolition Of War Can Only Be A Dream . . . But We Must Go On Or We Will All Go Under. And The Great Criticism That Can Be Made Is That The World Lacks A Plan That Will Enable Us To Go On . . . We Must Have Sufficient Imagination And Courage To Translate The Universal Wish For Peace - Which Is Rapidly Becoming A Universal Necessity - Into Actuality.