CONFIDENCE AND HOPE
"Liberty does not make all men perfect nor all society secure, but it provides more solid progress, happiness, and decency for more people than any other philosophy of government in history. This day has shown again' that it provides the greatest strength, the greatest power which man ever reached. We know that under it we can meet the hard problems of peace which come on us. -A free people, with free allies, who can develop the atomic bomb can use the same skill, energy, and determination to overcome all the difficulties ahead. Victory always has its burdens and responsibilities as well as rejoicing, but we face the future, with all its dangers, with great confidence and hope. America can build for itself a future of employment security with the United Nations. It can build a world of peace founded on justice, fair dealing, and tolerance. "As President of the United States, I proclaim today VJ day. It is not yet the day for the formal proclamation of the war's end, or of the cessation of hostilities, but it is a day which we Americans shall always remember as a day of retribution, as we remember that other day of infamy. "From this day we move forward towards a new era of security at home. With the other United Nations we move forward towards a new and better world cf peace, international goad will, and co-operation."
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 55, 3 September 1945, Page 5
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238CONFIDENCE AND HOPE Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 55, 3 September 1945, Page 5
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