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Sept. 17, 1948
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
FOR IM EDIATE RELEASE
REAR PLATFORM REMARKS OF THE PRESIDENT AT CRESTLINE,
OHIO, 10:30 p. m. e. S. t.
TRUMAN
"NATIONAL
ARCHIVES AND
RECORDS
Thank you very much, Mr. Congressman.
ORIGIN
SERVICE
I hope you will be the next Congressman from this district
I have just received a confirmation of a very sad incident.
The United Nations Mediator in Palestine was assassinated today.
It is a pleasure to be with you tonight. It is a great deal
of pleasure to me to visit with you people tonight in this lovely, peace-
ful American city - especially true tonight after what I have just told
you. This is the first opportunity I have had to speak since I received
the official confirmation of the tragic death of Count Bernadotte, the
Mediator of the United Nations in Palestine. I am saddened and shocked.
His death emphasizes again the difficulties in our efforts to settie
secure liberties under law to all the peoples in the world. Weknow that
orderly
through enxy world organization we must seek liberties like those we hold
precious in SUCH towns such as this beautiful city in Ohio. tonight
Tonight in Crestline, we take courage for our continuing efforts to reach
such liberties everywhere.
My faith remains unshaken that we shall achieve a peaceful settle-
ment of the problems in the Hearing Middle East. And I am hopeful that
we will be successful in the peaceful settlement of the problems in all the
rest of the world.
You know, we have fought two long, bitter wars to establish liber-
ties in the world, which we enjoy here as a matter of right, and about which
we think very little. Most of us are not appreciative of the government
under which we live until a tragedy such as that which took place today
brings it home to us that what we have is liberty of the individual. We
have a peaceful country in which to live. We have rights, which protect
us from the infringement of the government on those rights. That is what
we fought two great world wars to attain in the world.
It was my duty, immediately after I was sworn in as President of
the United States on pril 12, 1945, to decide whether the conference to or-
ganize the United Nations should go forward in San Francisco or not, on the
25th of April. That was the first decision I had to make. I made the de-
cision and the United Nations was organized as a going concern. We must
implement the principle set out in the Charter of the United Nations so that
we can have world peace, and SO that we can maintain world peace.
In order to maintain that peace, we must continue to be a strong
nation, and that is what I have advocated ever sincenI have been President
of the United States.
I want to thank you most sincerely for this wonderful turn out.
I appreciate it most highly. This is the second time within a short time
that I have been in your wonderful city, and I hope it won't be the last time.
Thank you very much.