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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Its fascinating to me that so many folks still
don't realise that the US</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>congress </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>ratified
the UN Charter. </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>That the UN Charter was if
you like a</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>previous </FONT><FONT face=Arial
size=2>generation of Americans gift to succeeding generations.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>An instrument of and for peace-making policy forged
by the hands of a</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>warrior </FONT><FONT face=Arial
size=2>generation that had not just the war genes in their cells but
war</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>memes </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>vividly in
their personal life histories and as an integral and </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>pressing </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>part of
their memories.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Perhaps not at the exact instant, but figuratively,
even as Harry Truman</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>was contemplating the terrible calculus of whether
</FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>to bomb Hiroshima </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>the United Nations Charter was on his mind.
</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>From a US State Department web site I gleaned the
fact that by a vote</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>of either 89 or 87 (memory fails) to 2, the US
Senate approved the </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>ratification of the UN </FONT><FONT face=Arial
size=2>Charter. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I got it into my head that I would like to read the
text of the debates those</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Senators, those representatives of their respective
states, some Republican</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>some Democrat must have had in getting to the point
of agreeing to ratify</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>the charter, (I know something of how fiercely
states rights are guarded even</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>within the </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>union) so
I sent an email to US Senate library and received a very</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>helpful response from a librarian there about
sources I might seek out.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Taking that response, nicely and concisely
summarised in the timesaving</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>manner that email allows I forwarded it on to a
librarian at an academic</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>university here in Australia to see if the relevant
documents were available</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>here. I hoped to read them and perhaps make copies
and perhaps make</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>at least some of what is not available on the net
(to my knowledge) available. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>You see I wanted to read the text of speeches that
are from an era and </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>a country that is not only not my own, but predated
the great digitisation</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>of documents that has occurred in recent decades.
</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Anyway, at a library here in Melbourne, I found the
Congressional Reports</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>on Microfiche but alas they stop, frustratingly,
just before the time I am </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>interested in </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>and
the Melbourne Uni librarian, skilled in the way that librarians</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>can be, </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>checked for
me the availability of those reports for the time period I </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>seek </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>and determined
that alas she could find none here in Australia. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>To assess the reports for the time period I seek I
need access to a </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Federal Repository Library of which there are many
in all the great states</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>of the US, including Hawaii. and yet there is none
in Australia.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>If there are any readers of this, that live in the
US near a relevant library</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>that has </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>the texts
of those speeches from that period and is interested,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>like me in what the Republicans of that day, some
of which will have no</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>doubt continued to have distinguished careers and
to great service for</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>their country said at that time, then I would be
grateful if you would </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>contact me. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>My idea is to discover the wisdom of an earlier and
yet relevant era and</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>to remind the current generation or those that will
listen, that previous</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>generations fought hard and thought hard
before establishing some of the</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>still imperfect institutions and systems that the
current generations can</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>take for granted and as part of their heritage
today. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I know from the material that I have been able to
gather that both Republicans</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>and Democrats were actively involved in the forging
of the UN. Tom Connolly</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>of Texas and Vandenburg of Michigan if memory
serves. I do have their</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>speeches </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>commending,
with the then President, Harry Truman, the UN Charter</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>to </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>the
Senate.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>So far I just have not been able to get the
speeches for the Senators that</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>were not ambassadors. I am also especially
interested in the speeches</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>if any from those two dissenters.
</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Brett Paatsch</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>