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Harry S. Truman's Address To The Opening Of The San Francisco Conference Drafting The United Nation's Charter

Heard
1945
Episodes
1
Language
English

"This sound recording captures a broadcast made by President Harry S. Truman from the White House to the conference in San Francisco that drafted the United Nation's (U.N.) Charter. On the task facing the new U.N. organization, he said: 'With ever-increasing brutality and destruction, modern warfare, if unchecked, would ultimately crush all civilization....The essence of our problem here is to provide sensible machinery for the settlement of disputes among nations.'" ARC Identifier 2131159

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  1. Harry S Truman%27s Address to the Opening of the San Francisco Conference Drafting the United Nation%27s Charter, 04:25:1945

    · 13 min

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  1. Harry S. Truman's Address To The Opening Of The San Francisco Conference Drafting The United Nation's Charter, 04/25/1945

    WWII Era Audio Recordings · National Broadcasting Company, Inc. · 1 episode here · archive.org

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