I GREATLY esteem the honor of having been invited to deliver this Charter Day Address to the great University of California. The Australian prime minister thought it important that I should accept your gesture as further proof of your desire that our countries should work together as closely and harmoniously in the Pacific after the war as we have been compelled by stern military necessity and a common vital interest to work together since December, 1941. For without evidencing the slightest trace of complacency we can look back with justifiable pride at what has been accomplished in the Pacific since the black months of 1942. First, the enemy's powerful and determined southern and eastern thrusts were arrested. Later a purely defensive or holding war was, under American leadership, gradually converted into a developing and enveloping offensive. Despite the great sacrifices involved in the waging of total war by the democracies, not only our two governments but also our two peoples are sternly resolved to pursue the Pacific enemy until final victory is achieved, even though further ordeals are ahead of us. We know that this is the very first condition of a sound postwar order in the Pacific. At the same time successes both in Europe and in the Pacific permit us, indeed compel us, to plan now lest our children or their children be afflicted with the tragedy of a third world war. After the First World War the victorious democracies had the ball at their feet, but they fumbled their opportunities. Between the two world wars preventable poverty and unemployment afflicted our peoples, especially our youth. Because we did not work together,, fascism was allowed to become a menace, first to a few countries, and then to the peace of the whole world. You can be sure that not only in Germany, Italy, and Japan, but elsewhere persons of fascist conviction or sympathy will endeavor to repeat the machinations which between ! 918 and 1939 nearly succeeded in the establishment of a world dictatorship without even a fight. Indeed but for the tenacity of a few-a very few-nations, the war would have ended in irreparable disaster. The great question is-will all this be allowed to happen again? That depends upon the strength and direction of our common will.