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IMMEDIATE RELEASE
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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REMARKS OF THE PRESIDENT, INTER-AMERICAN CONFERENCE ON
"NATIONAL
CONSERVATION OF RENEWABLE RESOURCES, STATE CAPITOL,
ARCHIVES AND
RECORDS
DENVER, COLORADO, September 20, 1948, 11:17 a.m., m.s.t.
SERVICE"
Mr. Secretary, Mr. Chairman, and Members of this historic Confer-
ence: It certainly is a very great pleasure to me to have this oppor-
tuhity to address the first hemispheric conference on conservation.
That is a step which will make history. That is a step that I hope
will thoroughly cement the friendship between the 21 western hemisphere
republics.
As you know, I have been exceedingly interested in the friendship
and the good neighbor policy of the United States of America. It was
my privilege to officially visit Mexico and Brazil and Canada, and
officially to receive the President of Chile, the President of Colombia,
and several other western hemisphere Presidents, including the President
of Mexico. He paid an official return visit to Washington to me for
the one I gave him.
If we can just continue that sort of feeling, there isn't any
question of doubt in my mind that our natural resources will meet the
population's demands, no matter what that may be. There are resources
in this western hemisphere that have never been touched. If those re-
sources can be properly conserved, if we can go through with a program
such as you are working with here, there isn't any question in my mind
but what eventually we will have peace in the world and there will be
enough of the good things in life for every citizen of the world to
enjoy a good living, plenty to eat, and plenty to wear, and a pleasant
place to stay and call it his own.
That, my friends, is what we are working for in other nations,
that is what we are working for in the Pan American conference, and
that is what we are working for right here in this hemispheric conser-
vation conference.
I want to thank you most sincerely for your kindness in asking
me to come and meet with you this morning. I wish I could stay longer,
and I wish I could hear some of the speeches and the lectures that
will be given here. I am vitally interested, but I am here for another
purpose, and if you are interested in American politics, I will tell you
all about it right here on the lawn.
Thank you.