NAVAL MESSAGE
                        (NAVY DEPARTMENT)
 
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GOVERNMENT AND THE INDIVIDUAL LEADERS AS THEY DESIRE AND CHOOSE
 
FOR THEMSELVES. THE PRESIDENT FELT THAT THE UNITED STATES IN
 
COMMON WITH ALL OTHER COUNTRIES HAD A VITAL INTEREST IN THE
 
PRESENT WAR AND THAT OUR COUNTRY RAN THE RISK OF SUFFERING
 
SERIOUS CONSEQUENCIES FROM THE WAR. HE WAS INTERESTED IN A 
 
BROAD WORLD SOLUTION THE UNITED STATES MUST NECESSARILY PLAY AN
 
IMPORTANT PART. HE WAS INTERESTED IN A FAIR AND EQUITABLE
 
SOLUTION OF THE IMMEDIATE DIFFICULTIES BETWEEN INDIVIDUAL
 
COUNTRIES PRIMARILY BECAUSE THESE DIFFICULTIES BEAR ON THE
 
BROAD WOLRD PROBLEM. IN THIS CONNECTION HE HAD SAID I AM NOT
 
INTERESTED IN ANY SCHEME FOR WORLD DOMINATION ON THE PART OF
 
THE BRITISH OR THE FRENCH ANY MORE THAN I AM ON THE PART OF 
 
THE GERMANS. THE PRESIDENT HAD SAID THAT PERHAPS WE COULD
 
AGREE ON A FRAMEWORK FOR AN ORDERLY POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC