The Brazilian people may
well go on with their activities
in the certainty that the Govern-
ment will maintain order and will
insure the tranquility necessary
to work for the development of
our sources of production and
means of trade.
We live in a Continent
where Civilization is young, where
the most arduous struggle is that
for the utilization of the huge re-
sources with which Nature has
endowed us. Accustomed as we
are to cultivating peace as the
guiding policy of international in-
tercourse, we shall remain faithful
to the ideal of strengthening ever
more and more, the union of the
American peoples. To them we
are linked for our common de-
fense in the face of alien threats
or interferences, and for this very
same reason we must refrain from
intervening in struggles that are
being waged outside the Conti-
nent. And this union, this solidar-
ity, to be firm and lasting, must
be based upon the mutual respect
of national sovereignties, and
upon the freedom of political or-
ganization, in accordance with
our tendencies, interests and ne-
cessities.
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