The action which you recommend meets with my approval.

Over a long period of time I have devoted considerable thought to various aspects of the problem which you discuss in your letter of today's date.

Now, Therefore, I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the above-quoted statutory provisions, do hereby declare and proclaim that the foreign discriminating duties of…

Now, Therefore, I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States of America, under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by section 2 of the act of June 8, 1906, 34 Stat. 225 (16 U.S.C. 431), do proclaim that, subject to all valid…

I am trying with everything I have to prevent another war.

We support this plan and will continue to support it unless or until a better and more effective plan is put forward.

Because the United Nations is the dynamic expression of what all the peoples of the world desire, because it sets up a standard of right and justice for all nations, it is greater than any of its members.

All I am working for is peace in the world, and the welfare of the people of the United States, and the people of all the other nations in the world.

The preparation of a Covenant on Human Rights by the Human Rights Commission is a task with which the United States is deeply concerned.

For these reasons, the United Nations has devoted much of its time to fostering respect for human rights.

Our vision is of a better world in which men and nations can live together, respecting one another's rights and cooperating in building a better life for all.

I am sincerely hoping that the things which we anticipated for the United Nations at San Francisco and at Flushing Meadows...will eventually come to pass.

The United States intends to play its full part in this great enterprise.

The member nations have learned from bitter experience that regard for human rights is indispensable to political, economic, and social progress.

Our faith is in the betterment of human relations.

This is the place where the nations of the world will work together to make that hope a reality.

The charter dearly shows our determination that international problems must be settled on a basis acceptable to the conscience of mankind.

Today, at least half of mankind lives in dire poverty.