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OCR Page 1 of 163/14/54: Reel 3, Track 1, Page 1
MR. JESSUP:
I was just trying to make the point that many of these issues were handled
in rather a routine way, until you would suddenly come to a General Assem--
bly in New York and then they would be thrown in your lap. They were
things you could not wrestle with; people had alr eady carried them to a
point where probably there was no particular way out, where it seemed to
me on a number of occasions that, if they had been treated as matters of
more consequence, from the mere fact that they were subject to world dis-
cussion in the UN, they would have received better guidance. And just
as an instance of something that came up out of the routine into a larger
question, I think the whole problem of human rights-which has a lot to do
with the fight on the Bricker Amendment and so on-partly due to the fact
that every one left it to Mrs. Roosevelt and her particular advisors; no
one was really keeping a look at it to see what its ultimate implications
were. And she adopted the policy of saying, "Well, I'll warn you that we
may not get this ratified; but if this is what you want then we '11 agree
that it will go in." And so that you finally got a build-up of something
which the United States was approving and yet which, when it was realized
in the Senate particularly, brings down a great howl of denunciation of
for
the UN and all sorts of things. I think that is another instance in which
the difficulty of the operation prevented us from realizing in time, or
the
this
,
analyzing in time, the issues that were going to get bigger in importance.
And another line of thought which has turned around in my mind is that,
if you look at a much smaller operation which was of such immediate cri-
tical importance that you did have to give your attention to it-namely,
the problem of NATO and of holding that group together, that was done;
and we kept
? ; but it seened to me that in the total picture we had
a problem also of holding the Latinos and the Arabl Nations and some of
the others on our side in some of these big issues, And that, instead
of working on that as a problem throughout the year, we just had to work
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