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Caption: Commencement - 1927
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the affairs of one or more other nation However, the recognition of the principle, with an earne .1 d >rt to apply it in concrete cases, will go far to < Wish mutual respect and good will and to maintain pea< In admitting the right o( each people to ma on fa r own affai treatment and protection for the person and property of Americans residing abroad. On this and other matters it seems to me that the policy of our country ol late has been judicious and reasonable. To quote from President Coolidge's Memorial Day Address, as reported in the newspapers, "It is the settled policy of our government to deal with other nations not on the basis of force and compulsion, but on the basi of understanding and good will. . . . Our own greatness will be measured by the justice and forbearance which we manifest toward others. . . . It is because of our belief in these princip! ^ that we wish to see all the world relieved from strife and conflict, and brought under the humanizing influence of a reign of law." While in conformity with our established and correct d have retained our independence of action, we should endeavor to have good "understandings" with all other nations, particularly with the English speaking peoples of the world. An Entente Cordiale, for our purpose, is far preferable 0 n alliance. I may add that it is better, too, for the world. In order that we may successfully follow in our rd tions with other nations the principles of conduct wh b I have mentioned, it is imperative that from now on there shall be a deeper unity among our own people. We cam dispassionately make national decisions on international matters in which there is a conflict of interests between ourselves and some particular nation if large sections < our people permit their judgment to be influenced by their racial or former political connections. Our "meltin pot may have melted, but it has not fused, the various element of our population. Whatever the American type of charmay be after fu elements, but (T\ ! • »
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