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APRIL 25, 1945
CAUTION: The following address of the President, to be broadcast
in connection with the opening of the San Francisco
TRU
Conference, MUST BE HELD IN CONFIDENCE until released.
"NATIONAL
ARCHIVES AND
NOTE:
Release to editions of all newspapers appearing on the
RECORDS
streets NOT EARLIER THAN 7:35 P.M., E.W.T., WEDNESDAY,
SERVICE"
April 25, 1945. The same release applies to radio
announcers and news commentators.
CARE MUST BE EXERCISED TO PREVENT PREMATURE PUBLICATION,
JONATHAN DANIELS
Secretary to the President
Delegates to the United Nations Conference
on International Organization:
The world has experienced a revival of an old faith in
the everlasting moral force of justice. At no time in history
has there been a more important Conference, nor a more necessary
meeting, than this one in San Francisco, which you are. opening
today.
On behalf of the American people, I extend to you a
most hearty welcome.
President Roosevelt appointed an able delegation to
represent the United States. I have complete confidence in its
Chairman. Secretary of State Stettinius, and in his distinguished
colleagues, former Secretary Cordell Hull, Senator Connally,
Senator Vandenberg, Representative Bloom and Representative Eaton,
Governor Stassen and Dean Gildersleeve.
They have my confidence. They have my support.
In the name of a great humanitarian -- one who surely
is with us today in spirit -- I earnestly appeal to each and
every one of you to rise above personal interests, and adhere to
those lofty principles, which benefit all mankind.
Franklin D. Roosevelt gave his life while trying to
perpetuate these high ideals. This Conference owes its existence,
in a large part, to the vision and foresight and determination of
Franklin Roosevelt.
Each of you can remember other courageous champions, who
also made the supreme sacrifice, serving under your flag. They
gave their lives, so that others might live in security. They
died to insure justice. We must work and live to guarantee
justice -- for all.
You members of this Conference are to be the architects
of the better world. In your hands rests our future. By your
labors at this Conference, we shall know if suffering humanity is
to achieve a just and lasting peace.
Let us labor to achieve a peace which is really worthy
of their great sacrifice. We must make certain, by your work here,
that another war will be impossible.
We, who have lived through the torture and the tragedy
of two world conflicts, must realize the magnitude of the problem
before us. We do not need far-sighted vision to understand the
trend in recent history. Its significance. is all too clear.
Preservation
(OVER)
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