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     We did sustain Britain in the first world war as a first
 
class power but we did not succeed in making the world "safe for 
 
democracy". Instead, when we backed away from the League of
 
Nations and failed to make the peace terms an instrument of
 
democracy, we made the world safe for imperialism. In the quarter
 
of a century which has intervened the processes of both eastern
 
and western imperialism set the stage for thls new world war.
 
        An effort to establish true freedom among the less favored
 
nations, so many of which are under the precent shadow of imperial-
 
ism, will amost inevitably run counter to the policy of sustaining
 
Britain as a first class world power. This leads us to the con-
 
clusion that Britain today is confronted by the same condition that
 
confronted our nation when Lincoln at Gettsburg said "That this
 
nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom". Britain
 
can be sustained as a first class power but to warrant this support 
 
from the American people she must accept the principles of liberty
 
and democracy and discard the principles of oppressive imperialism.
 
     Soviet Russia has earned for herself an assured place as a
 
first class world power. Friendship and cooperation between the
 
United States and the U.S.S.R. are essential to peace and harmony
 
in the post-war world. There must, therefore, be a mutual
 
understanding and acceptance of the post-war patterns for freedom
 
which the great powers among the United Nations are to offer to
 
their less powerful associates. Without such agreement there would
 
be jealousy, suspicion and conflict.