Of all our dreams today there is none more important - or so hard to realise - than that of peace in the world. May we never lose our faith in it or our resolve to do everything that can be done to convert it one day into reality.

I am grateful for the opportunities I have been given to participate in that work as a representative of my country, Canada, whose people have, I think, shown their devotion to peace.

But while we all pray for peace, we do not always, as free citizens, support the policies that make for peace or reject those which do not. We want our own kind of peace, brought about in our own way.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction.

The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.