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A Good Soldier, Whether He Leads A Platoon Or An Army, Is Expected To Look Backward As Well As Forward; But He Must Think Only Forward.

By Profession I Am A Soldier And Take Great Pride In That Fact, But I Am Prouder, Infinitely Prouder, To Be A Father. A Soldier Destroys In Order To Build; The Father Only Builds, Never Destroys. The One Has The Potentialities Of Death; The Other Embodies Creation And Life.

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...

In This Situation, It Becomes Vital That Our Own Country Orient Its Policies In Consonance With This Basic Evolutionary Condition Rather Than Pursue A Course Blind To The Reality That The Colonial Era Is Now Past And The Asian Peoples Covet The Right To Shape Their Own Free Destiny. What They Seek Now Is Friendly Guidance, Understanding, And Support - Not Imperious Direction - The Dignity Of Equality And Not The Shame Of Subjugation.

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.