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Harry Truman: In this celebration let us join with the peoples of the other free nations of the world in recognition of our common…

On the recordNovember 30, 1952
In this celebration let us join with the peoples of the other free nations of the world in recognition of our common purpose to defend and further the rights and freedoms of all people as proclaimed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and in so doing renew our determination that here in our own land the great guarantees in our Bills of Rights shall not be lost or weakened or curtailed.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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Proclamation 2999—United Nations Human Rights Day, 1952

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