Draft of Speech for President Harry S. Truman at the Signing of the North Atlantic Pact

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egg. Draft of Speech for President Truman at Signing of North Atlantic Pact SERVICE" of to The United States is honored to be host to the distin- guished Foreign Ministers present for the signing of the North Atlantic Pact. This is an historic occasion which I find deeply gratifying. The American people and their Government are determined to do everything in their power to help achieve just and lasting peace in the world. We are vigorously supporting the North Atlantic Pact because we firmly believe it is an essential step in building the peace. This treaty is a bulwark of peace because it is an expression profoundly important fact the necessity of international cooperation. It is a recognition of the reality that in the world today individual nations, no matter how strong or well-meaning, cannot achieve peace and well-being solely by their own efforts. Human society today has reached a state of development in which peace and progress can be achieved only by the combined effort of many nations, acting in unison. The history of the first half of this century proves beyond