Memorandum from the Department of State

DEPARTMENT OF STATE OFFICE EUROPEAN AFFAIRS Division of British Commonwealth Affairs October 30, 1945. S: U: The following message has been received from Ambas- sador Atherton in Ottawa, giving the Canadian reaction to the President's Navy Day address: "October 30, 1945. "Yesterday's papers and those of this morn- ing, in the absence of a Canadian Sunday press, supply the first Canadian press reaction to the President's speech on Saturday. There is unanimous approval of the prin- ciples themselves and majority of the papers commenting express confidence that the United States will do everything possible to carry out the policy as stated although there is a tend- ency on the part of almost all papers to point to the difficulties of implementing the prin- ciples enunciated by the President. The Progressive-Conservative 'Montreal Gazette' comments that 'the President kept his speech in lines of frankness and spirit. He ex- pressed his unshaken hope; he declared his firm Internationalism; he offered no capitulation of principle' while the Liberal 'Montreal Star' terms the address a !forthright statement cover- ing a broader field than has been covered by any American President in recent years. It has been one of the reproaches directed by a solid mass of the American people against its govern- ment that they never had a foreign policy. They will never be able to say that of President Truman'. "The French-language press given prominence to the speech the 'Action Catholique' commenting that 'if the United States really apply this policy AMD ARGWIVES RECORDE TERVICE A