1945 Extension of Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act: Hearings Before the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, Seventy-ninth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 2652, Superseded by H.R. 3240, a Bill to Extend the Authority of the President Under Section 350 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as Amended, and for Other Purposes

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Page 1759 - There is a rank due to the United States among nations which will be withheld, if not absolutely lost, by the reputation of weakness. If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it ; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known that we are at all times ready for war.
Page 1873 - That they recognize the necessity of establishing at the earliest practicable date a general international organization, based on the principle of the sovereign equality of all peace-loving states, and open to membership by all such states, large and small, for the maintenance of international peace and security.
Page 2326 - All goods, wares, articles, and merchandise mined, produced, or manufactured wholly or in part in any foreign country by convict labor or/and forced labor or/and indentured labor under penal sanctions shall not be entitled to entry at any of the ports of the United States, and the importation thereof is hereby prohibited, and the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to prescribe such regulations as may be necessary for the enforcement of this provision.
Page 1981 - States in accordance with the characteristics and needs of various branches of American production so that foreign markets will be made available to those branches of American production...
Page 1996 - Subject to the requirement that there shall be no arbitrary discrimination by either country against the other country in...
Page 1872 - We shall seek the cooperation and active participation of all nations, large and small, whose peoples in heart and mind are dedicated, as are our own peoples, to the elimination of tyranny and slavery, oppression and intolerance. We will welcome them, as they may choose to come, into a world family of democratic nations.
Page 2194 - American public, and in establishing and maintaining a better relationship among various branches of American agriculture, industry, mining, and commerce) by regulating the admission of foreign goods into the United States in accordance with the characteristics and needs of various branches of American production...
Page 1997 - Government of the other country in respect of the application of any sanitary law or regulation for the protection of human, animal, or plant life...
Page 2231 - If the commission finds it shown by the investigation that the duties expressly fixed by statute do not equalize the differences in the costs of production of the domestic article and the like or similar foreign article when produced in the principal competing country...
Page 1997 - Government may make with respect to the operation of customs regulations, quantitative regulations or the administration thereof, the observance of customs formalities, and the application of sanitary laws and regulations for the protection of human, animal or plant life or health.

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