Now included in general government are certain activities formerly classified under national defense.  Some of these, such as certain functions of the former foreign Economic Administration and the War Manpower Commission, are still needed during the period of reconversion; others are in the process of liquidation.  A few wartime activities, for example, the international information and foreign intelligence services and some of the wartime programs for controlling disease and crime, have become part of our regular government establishment.  Expenditures for these former wartime functions explain about 40 percent of the increase in expenditures for general government.

Other increases are for civil aeronautics promotion, the business and manufacturing censuses, and other expanded business services of the Department of Commerce which have been referred to above; the forest and Soil Conservation Services and other committees of the Department of certain conservation activities of the Department of the Interior; and the collection of internal revenue in the Treasury Department.

The necessity for reestablishing postal services curtailed during the war and advances in the rates of pay for postal employees have increased substantially the estimated expenditures for postal service for both the current and the next fiscal year.  It is not expected that this increase will cause expenditures to exceed postal revenues in either year, although an excess of expenditures may occur in the fiscal year 1947 if salaries are increased further.

Expenditures for our share of the administrative budgets of the United Nations and other permanent international bodies will increase sharply in the fiscal year 1947, yet will remain a small part of our total Budget.  The budget for the United Nations has not yet been determined; an estimate for our contribution will be submitted later.  Our contributions to the food and Agriculture Organization, the International Labor Office, the Pan American Union, and other similar international agencies will aggregate about 3 million dollars for the fiscal year 1947.  The administrative expenses of the International Monetary fund and the International Bank will be met from their general funds.

We have won a great war—­we, the nations of plain people who hate war.  In the test of that war we found a strength of unity that brought us through—­a strength that crushed the power of those who sought by force to deny our faith in the dignity of man.

During this trial the voices of disunity among us were silent or were subdued to an occasional whine that warned us that they were still among us.  Those voices are beginning to cry aloud again.  We must learn constantly to turn deaf ears to them.  They are voices which foster fear and suspicion and intolerance and hate.  They seek to destroy our harmony, our understanding of each other, our American tradition of “live and let live.”  They have become busy again, trying to set race against race, creed against creed, farmer against city dweller, worker against employer, people against their own governments.  They seek only to do us mischief.  They must not prevail.