UN General Assembly
1971

155, Perhaps Mr, Rogers is not aware of the fact that up to the time when the fascist occupiers were driven from Byelorussian soil, the Byelorussian partisans and underground fighters alone had killed or put out of action over half a million of Hitler’s soldiers and officers, that is to say considerably mom than the British and American armies put together had done by the middle of 1944.- These facts are known to many Americans. The heroic role of the Byelorussian people in achieving the aims of the United Nations and the right of the Byelorussian SSR to be a founding Member of the United Nations were recognized by one of Mr. Rogers predecessors, the United States Secretary of State, Mr. Stettinius, in a statement at a press conference in Washington on 3 April 1945. 156. We would remind Mr. Rogers of this and tell him not to use such impermissible methods in his efforts to defend the unjust cause of keeping the representatives of Chiang Kai-shek in the United Nations.