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    "ocrText": "3/14/54: Reel 3, Track 1, Page 3\nbecause there were others who were-I think there were others in the\nLegal Committee and other committees who might be allowed to have more\ninfluence than we were sametimes inclined to let them have.\nMR. JESSUP:\nI think that's true, because our individual representative in the Sixth\nor Fourth Committee, for example, feels that he's got a personal point of\nprestige to win for the United States in that place.\nMR. NITZE:\nDoesn't this run counter to what you were saying about the human rights\nthing? It was in the human rights thing that I think we said we didn't\nTRUMAN\nhave any objective, really, because.\nVOICE:\nWell, that's true.\nKennedy ANCHIVENS YATIONAL RECVIRIS ADMIN GENERAL\nMR. NITZE:\nAnd so we let Mrs. Roosevelt and her friends go forward on this.\nMR. RUSK:\nWell, I think I have to add a postscript to Phil's comment on the human\nrights situation. When the people in the Department raised serious ques-\ntions about whether we should proceed from a Declaration of Human Rights\nto a Covenant, Mrs. Roosevelt called on Mr. Truman, and Mr. Truman saciai\ntold her to go ahead with a Covenant.\nMR. ACHESON:\nThat's where you get into trouble. Phil, now we have to back a little bit\nof this\nin your thing about the UN. It seems to me that the things\nthat you are mentioning fall into two categories. One-II think one cate-\ngory is things which we should have been thinking about all the time but\ndon't think about because there are so many more important things, and\nthese are brought to our attention by the UN but enough work has not been\ndone on them, etc. Now, in that category the UN may perform a useful\nfunction by shocking us every once in a while into thinking about things\nthat we haven't thought about. I am not sure I agree with that, but let's\nsay it's a possibility and come back and talk about it in a moment. Now,\nthe other category are things which are really of no importance and on\nwhich we have to take positions, or at least we may have to take positions,\nand therefore to work on all these things is to detract your attention"
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