Evening star., 1943-01-01
Roosevelt Cites
Need for Allied
Unity After War
Stresses Necessity
Of Planning to
Avert New Conflict

fTeSlQ6nU hOOSeVelJ declared
today that the United Nations
must remain united after this
war in order to prevent another
world cataclysm.
In a statement on the first an
niversary of the signing of the
Declaration by United Nations, Mr.
Roosevelt emphasized the supreme
necessity" of planning what is to
come after-and of carrying forward
INTO peace the common effort which
Is bringing victory in the current
conflict.
Mr. Roosevelt described our task
on this New Year Day as three
fold:
/. ITO press on with the massed
forces of free humanity until the
present bandit assault upon civiliza-
ton is completely crushed"
z. 80 to organize relations among
nations that forces of barbarism can
never again break loose"
5. ITO cooperate to the end that
mankind may enjoy in peace and in
freedom the unprecedented blessings
which Divine Providence through
the progress of civilization has put
within our reach"
Common Objective Of Peace.
In amplifying his formal state
ment at a press conference, the
President declared that all of us
want the United Nations to remain
united at the end of the war as we'll
as during the war, in order to ac-
complish the supreme objective
maintaining peace.
He added that there are many
things for which he believes the
United Nations will remain united,
but that one objective stands out
now as the most important, and that
is to maintain peace so that all 60
ing through this war will not have
to go through another cataclysm
again. 5* ~ r..
This tobjective includes, the Presi-
dent said, reasonable assurance
that the. children of the men fight
ing now will not have to go through
the same thing.
He emphasized that most detailed
objectives considered In postwar
planning depend on the maintenance
Of peace, and remarked that lot
of such planning would not be much
use If there is another war in 10 or
Is years.
The President added that we must
keep firmly in mind that details OF
the postwar world do not matter
SO much and are unimportant COM
pared with the main thing of as
Suring peace so that the world will
not 60 back to the old menace OF
pre-war years.
Points to Offensive Role.
| The President, in his formal state
ment. hailed the unity achieved by
the United Nations amidst dire
danger" year ago as bearing "rict
fruit" and declared that the Allies
"are passing from the defensive te
the offensive"
He later authorized the following
direct quotation of a part of hi.
extemporaneous press conference
remarks:
"Of course, as I think has beer
intimated before, there are a grea
many objectives when peace comes
so that we won't 60 back to the OLE
menace of the pre-war period-a
great many things the United Ma.
tions ought to, and I think will, re-
main united for.
However, there is one thing which
at the present time stands out as tn.
most important war objective, ant
that is to maintain peace, so that al
OF us, in going through this war
including the men on the fighting
fronts and on the seas, will not hav,
to 60 through world cataclysn
again-that they will have SOM
reasonable assurance that thei
children won't have to go through i
again.
Almost all the other things w
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