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HOLD FOR RELEASE
HOLD FOR RELEASE
HOLD FOR RELEASE
OCTOBER 22, 1945
CONFIDENTIAL: The following address of the President of the United
States to be delivered at the opening of the General Assembly of
the United Nations MUST BE HELD IN STRICT CONFIDENCE and no portion,
synopsis or intimation is to be published until delivery has begun.
This is expected to be about 4:30 P.M., E.S.T., Wednesday, October
23, 1946.
The same release applies to radio announcers and news
broadcasters.
PLEASE EXERCISE CARE TO AVOID PREMATURE PUBLICATION OR
RADIO ANNOUNCEMENT.
CHARLES G. ROSS
Secretary to the President
On behalf of the Government and the people of the United
States I extend a warm welcome to the delegates who have come here
from all parts of the world to represent their countries at this
meeting of the General Assembly of the United Nations.
I recall with great pleasure the last occasion on which
I
met and spoke with the representatives of the United Nations.
Many of you who are here today were present then. It was the final
day of the Conference at San Francisco, when the United Nations
Charter was signed. On that day the constitutional foundation of
the United Nations was laid.
For the people of my country this meeting has a special
historic significance. After the first world war the United States
refused to join the League of Nations and our seat was empty at the
first meeting of the League Assembly. This time the United States
is not only a member; it is host to the United Nations.
I can assure you that the Government and the people of the
United States are deeply proud and grateful that the United Nations
has chosen our country for its headquarters. We will extend the
fullest measure of cooperation in making a home for the United Nations
in this country. The American people welcome the delegates and the
Secretariat of the United Nations as good neighbors and warm friends.
This meeting of the Assembly symbolizes the abandonment
by the United States of a policy of isolation.
The overwhelming majority of the American people, regardless
of party, support the United Nations.
They are resolved that the United States, to the full limit
of its strength, shall contribute to the establishment and maintenance
of a just and lasting peace among the nations of the world.
However, I must tell you that the American people are
troubled by the failure of the Allied nations to make more progress
in their common search for lasting peace.
It is important to remember the intended place of the United
Nations in moving toward this goal. The United Nations -- as an
organization -- was not intended to settle the problems arising im-
mediately out of the war. The United Nations was intended to provide
the means for maintaining international peace in the future after just
settlements have been made.
The settlement of these problems was deliberately consigned
to negotiations among the Allies as distinguished from the United
Nations. This was done in order to give the United Nations a better
opportunity and a freer hand to carry out its long-range task of pro-
viding peaceful means for the adjustment of future differences, some
of which might arise out of the settlements made as a result of this
war.
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