By the leading part the United States has taken in the United Nations in producing an effective international legal instrument outlawing the world-shocking crime of genocide, we have established before the world our firm and clear policy toward that crime.
Special Message to the Senate Transmitting Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
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