IT IS a pleasure to greet you. Such trips as this do much for international goodwill. It is also great for educational purposes, because you had to inform yourselves thoroughly and completely on the country you were going to visit, and when you got there you found out that those people have the same ideals and are trying to do just exactly what we are: that is, to make their country a good place in which to live.
I am glad you took the trip. I hope these trips will be continued, and I hope that every State in the Union will have a chance to have representatives visit some of our neighbors, and find out just what goes on across the line. It has been a pleasure to have you here.
Note: The President spoke at 3:05 p.m. in the Rose Garden at the White House.
The group consisted of 31 Kansas high school students who had just finished a 10-day study tour of Canada, which they had won in a contest for the best essays on U.S.-Canadian relations. The contest and trip were under the auspices of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of Kansas.
Harry S Truman, Remarks to a Group of High School Students From Kansas. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/230656
