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that we are turning this country over to the next, clear
in our conscience that we have done our best. But we
must go further, harder, and deeper than that.
We must, specifically, keep unimpaired for our children
the assurance that the sacrifices of our people in the last
war have not been in vain and are not to be lightly ignored
in any arrangement for the peace and stability of our part
of the world. Our goal is not the present satisfaction of
our material longing, and convenience.
We will resist with all our soul any temptation to turn
back on the spirit that has united, and kept our people
united, through all the trying vicissitudes of foreign aggres-
sion, subjection and abuse. We have evolved a national
soul that other peoples have come to respect and honor.
I say that there can be no honor and security in the
benefits of any material recovery for our devastated land
that are to be purchased by a betrayal of the faith of those
who died that we might live as free men.
We are joined with the free world today in resisting
aggression. We have become familiar with the fruits of
aggression in the destruction, hate and misery it breeds
and leaves in its cruel and bloody trail. We cannot in
conscience be a willing party to any transaction that would
give it speedy clearance to rear again its ugly head in our
midst, by simply writing off its accountability at the behest
of a cherished friend. We are not rancorous or revengeful.
But we cannot sustain such a callow gesture of false
generosity and keep our self-respect.
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