It is important that the nations come together as States in the Assembly and in the Security Council and in the other specialized assemblies and councils that have been and will be arranged.  But this is not enough.  Our ultimate security requires more than a process of consultation and compromise.

It requires that we begin now to develop the United Nations Organization as the representative of the world as one society.  The United Nations Organization, if we have the will adequately to staff it and to make it work as it should, will provide a great voice to speak constantly and responsibly in terms of world collaboration and world well-being.

There are many new responsibilities for us as we enter into this new international era.  The whole power and will and wisdom of our Government and of our people should be focused to contribute to and to influence international action.  It is intricate, continuing business.  Many concessions and adjustments will be required.

The spectacular progress of science in recent years makes these necessities more vivid and urgent.  That progress has speeded internal development and has changed world relationships so fast that we must realize the fact of a new era.  It is an era in which affairs have become complex and rich in promise.  Delicate and intricate relationships, involving us all in countless ways, must be carefully considered.

On the domestic scene, as well as on the international scene, we must lay a new and better foundation for cooperation.  We face a great peacetime venture; the challenging venture of a free enterprise economy making full and effective use of its rich resources and technical advances.  This is a venture in which business, agriculture, and labor have vastly greater opportunities than heretofore.  But they all also have vastly greater responsibilities.  We will not measure up to those responsibilities by the simple return to “normalcy” that was tried after the last war.

The general objective, on the contrary, is to move forward to find the way in time of peace to the full utilization and development of our physical and human resources that were demonstrated so effectively in the war.

To accomplish this, it is not intended that the Federal Government should do things that can be done as well for the Nation by private enterprise, or by State and local governments.  On the contrary, the war has demonstrated how effectively we can organize our productive system and develop the potential abilities of our people by aiding the efforts of private enterprise.

As we move toward one common objective there will be many and urgent problems to meet.

Industrial peace between management and labor will have to be achieved—­through the process of collective bargaining—­with Government assistance but not Government compulsion.  This is a problem which is the concern not only of management, labor, and the Government, but also the concern of every one of us.