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Resolved by the House of Representatives [the Senate concurring'] that the Congress hereby expresses itself as favoring the creation of appropriate international machinery with power adequate to establish and maintain a just and lasting peace among the nations of the world, and as favoring participation by the United States therein...
...recognize, that our British and Russian allies are not only dedicated to the broad purpose of crushing Naziism and Fascism, but that they have a number of very definite and very practical national aims which have been frankly revealed to the world. . . . One of them-Britain-frankly intends to maintain the Empire, and the other-Russia-has clear intentions regarding Eastern Europe...
...must develop a policy based on national self-interest guided by justice, which will bring people together as Americans regardless of racial differences. Such a policy can be based on those things which we must have from outside our borders to maintain our democracy, our military establishment and our influence for peace in the family of nations. Some of the things which should be the objects of international agreement...
...this agreement, captives must be kept safe from "acts of violence, insults and public curiosity." They are prisoners but not criminals, can not be confined in penitentiaries, subjected to corporal punishment or any form of cruelty. They have regular complaint courts to vent POW frustration. They are still soldiers, maintain their own military discipline, salute only their captors of superior rank. They live like soldiers - but in a cage - and they gripe like soldiers...
...that widespread U.S. subsidies will work because Britain and Canada have used them to good advantage* overlooks the fact that the U.S. situation differs widely from the other two: 1) Britain and Canada have both concentrated on a few strategic cost-of-living items; the U.S. is trying to maintain a blanket ceiling on all prices; 2) in England, most cost-of-living items are imported, which makes Government control much simpler and cheaper; 3) in both Canada and Britain wage control has been facturers will make no more than the prewar number of cotton and rayon blends...