FREE COUNTRIES DETERMINED TO RESIST ATTACK

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXVII, Issue 14883, 21 January 1949, Page 3

FREE COUNTRIES DETERMINED TO RESIST ATTACK

United States Wit! Help Those Witling To Co-operate For Peace

MR TRUMAN’S INSPIRING INAUGURAL ADDRESS' AS PRESIDENT

London, January 20

In Washington today Mr Truman, in his inaugural speech as President of the United States, emphasised four major questions in the United States programme for the coming year.

The United States, he said, had given frequent support to the United Nations and had tried to strengthen its authority. She would go on with her programme for world economic recovery and would keep her full weight behind the European Recovery Programme. She was confident of its success. The United States would also strengthen the free-dom-loving nations against the dangers of aggression. The President hoped soon to send to Senate a treaty about the North Atlantic Security Pact. It would take the form of a collective defence measure within the United Nations Charter. The Treaty of Rio de Janeiro had already set up a similar pact for the Western Hemisphere. The

primary aim of these agreements was to prove the determination of free countries to resist attack. ; The President referred to the granting of military advice and equipment to free nations willing' to co-operate in keeping the peace and security. Mr Truman said that the United States must also embark on a bold, new programme to make new advances in science and industry to help undeveloped, areas. The United States material help was limited but her technical resources were inexhaustible. ‘The President invited other countries to pool their technical resources in this undertaking. Earlier in his speech, President Truman described Communism as a false philosophy and a threat to world recovery and lasting peace. Above all else the United States was determined to work for a genuine peace freely arrived at by equals.