White House Press Release, Address of President Harry S. Truman Before the United Nations General Assembly
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OCTOBER 23, 1950
CONFIDENTIAL: The following address of the President, to be delivered
before the United Nations General Assembly, Flushing Meadow, New York,
October twenty-fourth IS FOR RELEASE at 11:30 a.m., e.sit., tomorrow
TUESDAY, October 24, 1950.
CHARLES G. ROSS
Secretary to the President
MR. PRESIDENT, MR. SECRETARY GENERAL, MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,
AND PEOPLE OF THE UNITED NATIONS:
Five years ago today, the Charter of the United Nations
came into force. By virtue of that event, October 24, 1945, became
a great day in the history of the world.
Long before that day, the idea of an association of nations
able to keep the peace had lived as a dream in the hearts and minds
of men. Woodrow Wilson was the author of that idea in our time. The
Organization that was brought into being on October 24, 1945, repre-
sents our greatest advance toward making the dream a reality.
The United Nations was born out of the agony of war -- the
most terrible war in history. Those who drew up the Charter really
had less to do with the creation of the United Nations than the
millions who fought and died in that war. We who work to carry
out its great principles should always remember that this Organiza-
tion owes its existence to the blood and sacrifice of millions of men
and women. It is built out of their hopes for peace and justice.
The United Nations represents the idea of a universal
morality, superior to the interests of individual nations. Its
foundations do not rest upon power or privilege, but upon faith.
They rest upon the faith of men in human values -- upon the belief
that men in every land hold the same high ideals and strive toward
the same goals of peace and justice.
This faith is deeply held by the people of the United
States of America and, I believe, by the peoples of all other
countries.
Governments may sometimes falter in their support of the
United Nations, but the peoples of the world do not falter. The
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