"It is our traditional policy to live in peace with other nations....but in a world of high tension and disorder and in a world where stable civilization is actually threatened, it becomes the responsibility of each nation....tu be strong enough to assure observance of those fundamental of peaceful solutions of conflicts which are the only ultimate basis of orderly existence.
"We propose to observe as in the bust our own treaty obligations, but we cannot be certain of reciprocity on the part of others who disregard treaty obligations which seems followed on the surface by a trend away from the democratic and representative form of government.
"It would seem, therefore. that world peace through international agreements is most safe in the hands of democratic representative governments or, in other words, peace is most greatly jeopardized in and by those nations where democracy has been discarded or never developed.
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