 I'm very glad to be able to take part in this celebration in St. Louis on Human Rights Day. Ever since the declaration of human rights, the universal declaration of human rights, was passed in Paris in 1948 on December the 10th, we have fostered the observance of this day not only in the United States but throughout the world. The object is to make people everywhere conscious of the importance of human rights and freedoms. The reason for that is that these are spoken of and emphasised in the charter of the United Nations and the declaration was written to elaborate the rights already mentioned in the charter and to emphasise also for all of us the fact that the building of human rights would be one of the foundation stones on which we would build in the world, an atmosphere in which peace could grow. For that reason, all over the world, we've encouraged the associations for the United Nations to observe the whole week before United Nations comes around to explain United Nations and what goes on in that organisation and when we come to the celebration for human rights we try to particularly have people study the declaration so that they will really understand what we're considered to be the most essential rights for all people to have throughout the world. They fall into different groups and one reason that we are now considering the writing of a covenant or covenants is because we feel that these rights should sometime be actually written into the laws of countries throughout the world and that can be done by the adoption of covenants and the changing of laws to meet whatever a country has accepted in a covenant which will be written in treaty form. These things must be well understood because even though you accept treaties and countries rat by those treaties the real change which must give to people throughout the world their human rights must come about in the hearts of people. We must want our fellow human beings to have rights and freedoms which give them dignity and which will give them a sense that they are human beings that can walk the earth with their heads high and look all men in the face. If we observe these rights for ourselves and for others I think we will find that it is easier in the world to build peace because war destroys all human rights and freedoms so in fighting for those we fight for peace.