Each country participating in these
arrangements must contribute all it can to the common defense.
If we can make it sufficiently clear, in advance, that any armed
attack affecting our national security would be met with
overwhelming force, the armed attack might never occur.
I hope soon to send to the Senate a treaty respecting the North
Atlantic security plan.
In addition, we will provide military advice and equipment to free
nations which will cooperate with us in the maintenance of peace
and security.
Fourth, we must embark on a bold new program for making the
benefits of our scientific advances and industrial progress
available for the improvement and growth of underdeveloped areas.
More than half the people of the world are living in conditions
approaching misery. Their food is inadequate. They are victims of
disease. Their economic life is primitive and stagnant. Their
poverty is a handicap and a threat both to them and to more
prosperous areas.
For the first time in history, humanity possesses the knowledge
and the skill to relieve the suffering of these people.
The United States is pre-eminent among nations in the development
of industrial and scientific techniques. The material resources
which we can afford to use for the assistance of other peoples are
limited.
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