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HOLD FOR RELEASE
HOLD FOR RELEASE
HOLD FOR RELEASE
March 19, 1946
CONTIDENTIAL: The following message to the Congress, transmitting the
report of the First Part of the First Session of the General Assembly of
the United Nations, London, January 10-February 14, MUST BE HELD in
strict confidence until reading of the message has begun in either the
Senate or the House of Representatives, probably about 12:00 o'clock
NOON, today, TUESDAY, MARCH 19.
NOTE: THE SAME RELEASE APPLIES TO THE ACCOMPANYING REPORT AND
LETTER OF SECRETARY OF STATE BYRNES, TRANSMITTING IT TO THE PRESIDENT.
CAUTION: Please exercise care to prevent premature publication.
CHARLES G. ROSS
Secretary to the President.
TO THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES:
I transmit herewith for the information of the Congress a copy
of the Report on the activities of the American Delegation to the First
Part of the First Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations
in London, England, January 10 - February 14, 1946, submitted by the
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Secretary of State to the President of the United States under date of
March 1, 1946.
The participation of the American representatives in the actual
establishment of the institutions provided in the Charter of the United
Nations, and in the initial work of the General Assembly regarding the urgent
problems confronting the 51 Members of the United Nations today is vital
to all Americans.
The United States supports the Charter. The United States
supports the fullest implementation of the principles of the Charter. The
United States seeks to achieve the purposes of the Charter. And the
United States seeks to perfect the Charter as experience lights the way.
To do less than our utmost in this essential effort of peace-loving
nations, whatever may be the obstacles and difficulties, would be a betrayal
of the trust of those who fought to win the opportunity to have a world at
last with peace and security, and well-being, for all. To do our utmost
will be to give new and full expression to the meaning of "America" to
the world.
I commend to the attention of the Congress the enclosed report
as constituting the Record, briefly told, of the part taken by our
representatives in the progress so far made by the United Nations, now
established and at work.
HARRY S. TRUMAN
THE WHITE HOUSE,
March 19, 1946.