09/07/1943
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"The work confronting U.N.R.R.A. is immediate and urgent."
"The people of these 44 Nations include approximately 80 percent of the human race."
"In U.N.R.R.A. we have devised a mechanism, based on the processes of true democracy, a mechanism that can go far toward accomplishment of such an objective in the days and months of desperate emergenc..."
"It would be supreme irony for us to win a victory, and then to inherit world chaos simply because we were unprepared to meet what we know we shall have to meet."