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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “The central purpose of the United Nations is to keep the peace wherever possible and to restore the peace whenever it is…”

On the recordJanuary 29, 1962
The central purpose of the United Nations is to keep the peace wherever possible and to restore the peace whenever it is broken.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Special Message to the Congress Transmitting a Bill for the Purchase of United Nations Bonds

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