The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-27
Text OF Presidents
Speech To Conference

CAN FRANCISCO, June 2S.-(P
president Humans address to
4ba United Nations Conference
M Mr. Chairman and Delegates to
.ho limited Nations Conference on
1nternational organization:
deeply regret that the press
# circumstances when this Con-
ference opened made it impossible
for me to be here to greet you in
nerson. | have asked for the
privjlege of coming today, to ex-
press on behalf of the people of
tbo United States our thanks for
ubat YOU have done here, and to
wish you godspeed on your jour.
neys home.
Somewhere in this broad coun-
trv every one of you can find
anne of our citizens who are sons
.nd daughters, Or descendants in
some degree Of your native land.
All our people are glad and proud
that this historic meeting and its
accomplishments have taken place
in ou1 country. And that includes
tne millions of loyal and patriotic
Americans who stem from the
countries not represented at this
conference.
We are grateful to you for COM
ing. We hope you have enjoyed
YOUR stay and that you will come
again.
You assembled in San Francisco
nine weeks ago with the high hope
and confidence of peace-loving
people the world over.
Their confidence in you has been
justified.
Their hope for your success has
been fulfilled.
The Charter of the United Ma
tions which you have just signed
is a solid structure upon which
we can build better world. His
tory will honor you for it. Be-
tween the victory in Europe and
the final victory in Japan, in this
most destructive of all wars, you
have won a victory against war
itself.
II was the hope of such a Char
Ter that helped sustain the cour-
age of stricken peoples through
the darkest days of the war. For
it is a declaration of great faith
by the nations of the earth-faith
that war is not inevitable. faith
that peace can be maintained.
# We had had this Charter a few
years ago-and above all, the will
TO use it-millions now dead would
be alive. If we should falter in
the future in our will to use it,
millions now living will surely
die
Ii has already been said by many
that this is only first step to a
lasing peace. That is true. The
important thing is that all our
thinking and all our actions be
based on the realization that it is
in fact only a first step. Let us
ell have it firmly in mind that
we start today from good be-
ginning and, with our eye always
or the final objective, let us
march forward.
The Constitution of my own
country came from a convention
which-like this one-was made up
Of delegates with many different
views. Like this Charter, our con-
stitution came from a free and
sometimes bitter exchange of con-
flicting opinions. When it was
adopted, no one regarded it as
perfect document. But it grew
and developed and expanded. And
upon it there was built a bigger,
a better, a more pe-Act union.
This Charter, like our own con-
stitution, will be expanded and inn
proved as time goes on. No one
claims that it is now a final or a
perfect instrument. It has not
been poured into any fixed mold.
Changing world conditions will
require readjustments-but they
will be the establishments of peace
and not of war.
That we now have this Charter
at all is great wonder. 1t is
also cause for profound thanks
giving to Almighty God, who has
brought us so far in our search
for peace through world organiza-
ton.
There are many who doubted