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This sound recording captures a broadcast made by President Harry S. Truman from the White House to the conference in San Francisco that drafted the United Nation's (U.N.) Charter. On the task facing the new U.N. organization, he said: "With ever-increasing brutality and destruction, modern warfare, if unchecked, would ultimately crush all civilization....The essence of our problem here is to provide sensible machinery for the settlement of disputes among nations."
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2131159
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Harry S. Truman's Address to the Opening of the San Francisco Conference Drafting the United Nation's Charter
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Harry S. Truman's Address to the Opening of the San Francisco Conference Drafting the United Nation's Charter
description
This sound recording captures a broadcast made by President Harry S. Truman from the White House to the conference in San Francisco that drafted the United Nation's (U.N.) Charter. On the task facing the new U.N. organization, he said: "With ever-increasing brutality and destruction, modern warfare, if unchecked, would ultimately crush all civilization....The essence of our problem here is to provide sensible machinery for the settlement of disputes among nations."
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200.165
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National Broadcasting Company, Inc., Collection
Sound Recordings of Broadcasts
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2131159
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25
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1945-04-25
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4
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1945
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