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...Even a cursory examination of the record would have shown the unfairness of such designation. My speeches on the floor of the Senate, the Resolutions that I have introduced and the work that I have done during the past year in assisting to formulate the Connally Resolution and the Dumbarton Oaks document, certainly deserve something better than the type of comment appearing in your publication...
...Gave qualified approval to the Dumbarton Oaks proposals, frowning on "a military alliance of a few great powers...
...Dumbarton Oaks proposals represent an achievement. But in their present state they represent only a partial agreement of four nations. It remains to complete that agreement, not only within the Big Four, but by enabling the smaller nations to come along as willing partners...
...Dumbarton Oaks falls short ... of what is necessary to assure peace with justice. Too much reliance is placed upon force. . . . The arrangement partakes much of a military alliance. The proposed organization is inadequately endowed with curative and creative functions...
...other hand, we must not, in the search for perfection, withdraw our support of the best which may now be practical. "The Dumbarton Oaks proposals assure . . . that when the war coalition dissolves it will be replaced by a peace coalition, rather than by pre-war anarchy. . . . Therefore, they can be accepted. But they can be accepted only as a beginning. Next to doing nothing, the worst calamity would be to regard what is now done as adequate. . . . We must recognize the fact that we face a continuing task...