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    "ocrText": "The Chairman of the Delegation of the United States of America\nTHE HONORABLE EDWARD R. STETTINIUS, JR.\nIt is with a full heart that I address this final plenary session of the\nUnited Nations Conference on International Organization.\nTwo months ago the delegates here assembled met for the first time. We\ncame from many parts of the earth, across continents and oceans. We came\nas the representatives of fifty different nations. But we came here first of all\nas the representatives of humanity and as the bearers of a common mandate-\nto write the Charter of a World Organization to maintain peace for all\nnations and to promote the welfare of all men.\nEvery nation represented here has had a part in the making of the Charter.\nSentence by sentence, article by article, it has been hammerd out around the\nconference tables. We have spoken freely with each other. Often we have\ndisagreed. When we disagreed we tried again, and then again, until we ended\nby reconciling the differences among us.\nThis is the way of friendship and of peace. This is the only way that\nnations of free men can make a Charter for peace and the only way that they\ncan live at peace with one another.\nThe San Francisco Conference has fulfilled its mandate. The Charter of\na permanent United Nations has now been written.\nToday we meet together for the last time at this Conference. Tomorrow\nwe shall separate and return home, each to his own country. But in this\nCharter we will carry to our governments and to our peoples an identical\nmessage of purpose and an identical instrument for the fulfillment of that\npurpose.\nWe shall bring this Charter to a world that is still racked by war and by\nwar's aftermath.\nA few days ago I talked with some young Americans just back from the\nbattlefront. They lay-wounded and in pain-in the beds of an Army\nhospital.\nAs I talked with them I thought of the many millions who have risked\nall and sacrificed future and life itself to give the world this chance. I thought\nes to be delivered at the closing plenary session.\nof all those men and women and children of the nations represented in this\nPresident of the United States of America will\nmeeting place today whom tyranny with bomb and bayonet, starvation, fire\nand torture, could kill but never conquer. And I thought of all the cities now\ned at the close of the session.\nin ruins and all the land laid waste.\n[3]"
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