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Harry Truman: The United Nations elected to act now rather than to drift passively once more down the fatal trail of failure to oppose…

On the recordJuly 25, 1951
The United Nations elected to act now rather than to drift passively once more down the fatal trail of failure to oppose aggression which leads finally to total war.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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Message to the Congress Transmitting Report of U.S. Participation in the United Nations for 1950.

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