【文章內容簡介】 he inauguration and enjoyment of an age of plenty. I have often used words which I learn fifty years ago from a great IrishAmerican orator, a friend of mine, Mr. Bourke Cockran, amp。quot。There is enough for all. The earth is a generous mother。 she will provide in plentiful abundance food for all her children if they will but cultivate her soil in justice and peace.amp。quot。 So far I feel that we are in full agreement.
　　Now, while still pursing the method the method of realizing our overall strategic concept, I e to the crux of what I have traveled here to say. Neither the sure prevention of war, nor the continuous rise of world organization will be gained without what I have called the fraternal association of the Englishspeaking peoples. This means a special relationship between the British Commonwealth and Empire and the United States of America. Ladies and gentlemen, this is no time for generality, and I will venture to the precise. Fraternal association requires not only the growing friendship and mutual understanding between our two vast but kindred systems of society, but the continuance of the intimate relations between our military advisers, leading to mon study of potential dangers, the similarity of weapons and manuals of instructions, and to the interchange of officers and cadets at technical colleges. It should carry with it the continuance of the present facilities for mutual security by the joint use of all Naval and Air Force bases in the possession of either country all over the world. This would perhaps double the mobility of the American Navy and Air Force. It would greatly expand that of the British Empire forces and it might well lead, if and as the world calms down, to important financial savings. Already we use together a large number of islands。 more may well be entrusted to our joint care in the near future.
　　the United States has already a Permanent Defense Agreement with the Dominion of Canada, which is so devotedly attached to the British Commonwealth and the Empire. This Agreement is more effective than many of those which have been made under formal alliances. This principle should be extended to all the British Commonwealths with full reciprocity. Thus, whatever happens, and thus only, shall we be secure ourselves and able to works together for the high and simple causes that are dear to us and bode no ill to any. Eventually there may e I feel eventually there will e the principle of mon citizenship, but that we may be content to leave to destiny, whose outstretched arm many of us can already clearly see.
　　There is however an important question we must ask ourselves. Would a special relationship between the United States and the British Commonwealth be inconsistent with our overriding loyalties to the World Organization? I reply that, on the contrary, it is probably the only means by which that organization will achieve its full stature and strength. There are already the special United States relations with Canada that I have just mentioned, and there are the relations between the United States and the South American Republics. We British have also our twenty years Treaty of Collaboration and Mutual Assistance with Soviet Russia. I agree with Mr. Bevin, the Foreign Secretary of Great Britain, that it might well be a fifty years treaty so far as we are concerned. We aim at nothing but mutual assistance and collaboration with Russia. The British have an alliance with Portugal unbroken since the year 1384, and which produced fruitful results at a critical moment in the recent war. None of these clash with the general interest of a world agreement, or a world organization。 on the contrary, they help it. amp。quot。In my father39。s house are many mansions.amp。quot。 Special associations between members of the United Nations which have no aggressive point against any other country, which harbor no design inpatible with the Charter of the United Nations, far from being harmful, are beneficial and, as I believe, indispensable.
　　I spoke earlier, ladies and gentlemen, of the Temple of Peace. Workmen from all countries must build that temple. If two of the workmen know each other particularly well and are old friends, if their families are intermingled, if they have amp。quot。faith in each other39。s purpose, hope in each other39。s future and charity towards each other39。s shortingsamp。quot。 to quote some good words I read here the other day why cannot they work together at the mon task as friends and partners? Why can they not share their tools and thus increase each other39。s working powers? Indeed they must do so or else the temple may not be built, or, being built, it may collapse, and we should all be proved again unteachable and have to go and try to learn again for a third time in a school of war inparably more rigorous than that from which we have just been released. The dark ages may return, the Stone Age may return on the gleaming wings of science, and what might now shower immeasurable material blessings upon mankind, may even bring about its total destruction. Beware, I say。 time may be short. Do not let us take the course of allowing events to drift along until it is too late. If there is to be a fraternal association of the kind of I have described, with all the strength and security which both our countries can derive from it, let us make sure that that great fact is known to the world, and that it plays its part in steadying and stabilizing the foundations of peace. There is the path of wisdom. Prevention is better than the cure.
　　A shadow has fallen upon the scenes so lately light by the Allied victory. Nobody knows what Soviet R