Statement by President Harry S. Truman for the United Nations Radio Program

THERE STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT = FOR UNITED NATIONS RADIO PROGRAM, JUNE 26 Today, on the second anniversary of the signing of the United Nations the Charter, I am happy to speak for the Government and people of the United States in saluting the Organization and the ideals of international cooperation which gave it life. For the last two years, the Members of the United Nations have been exerting great effort to build and set in motion its machinery. This process of organization has gone forward in an atmosphere of disturbance and uncertainty, the aftermath of the Second World War. In addition and components. from the very first sessions of its principal ongens x the United Nations 7224 histly has been asked to contend with some C on troversial H has found it necessary international political issues, to chart new paths of economic and a social cooperation in the complexities of post war world. The effectiveness of the United Nations depends upon the smeeting the Member States of a their obligations. Assurance that these met obligations will be carried out depends in turn upon the will of the member States. peoples of the several Hembone. The vigor of the United Nations stems therefore from public opinion |educated to understand its problems, and its capsoity to solve thom. The existence of the United Nations obviously affords no guarantee can that every international problem with be solved easily, or automatically, or immediately. It should not be a matter for surprise or disillusionment that many issues arising as a result of the War still remain unsettled. The strength of the United Nations trests in the recognition by the Member States that, despite all the differences they have a CO