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Title Items-In-Eleanor Roosevelt Memorial Foundation, 12 October 1964 UN Secretariat Item Scan - Barcode - Record Title Page 80 Date 15/05/2006 Time 10:05:35 AM S-0885-0002-30-00001 Expanded Number S-0885-0002-30-00001 Title Items-in-Eleanor Roosevelt Memorial Foundation, 12 October 1964 Date Created 26/07/1963 Record Type Archival Item Container S-0885-0002: Operational Files of the Secretary-General: U Thant: Speeches, Messages, Statements, and Addresses - not issued as press releases Print Name of Person Submit Image Signature of Person Submit Address "by U Thant, Secretary-General of the United Nations, at a dinner marking the 80th anniversary of the "birthday of Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, Monday, 12 October We are gathered here today to honour the memory of a great lady, a lady who for over twelve years was the First Lady of the United States of America, "but who subsequently came to "be universally recognized as the First Lady of the World. Her mixture of practical wisdom and idealism was unique. Her energy, her generosity, and her devotion to all good causes were legendary. She travelled widely and looked on all humanity with compassion. She gave of herself not only to her country, "but to- the world at large. While she served as the representative of her country on various organs of the United Nations, we remember her "best for her dedicated and patient work in giving shape and substance to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was adopted and proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly almost sixteen years ago, on 10 December 19^8. We all know with what intense dedication and determination Mrs. Roosevelt pursued one of the primary purposes of the United Nations set out in the Charter: "to achieve international cooperation in promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and for fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion". As we look back now, we realize that perhaps this dedication and devotion were motivated in no small part by a sense of urgency to reach the goal set by her husband, the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who in 19^1 had - 2 - enunciated the four freedoms - freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear, "everywhere in the world". We recall with what energy and zeal Mrs. Roosevelt, as Chairman of the Commission on Human Rights and its Drafting Committee during the long and trying days when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was taking shape, inspired and rallied the hopes of all who had been seeking a path to justice and to liberty in the post-war era. The work began on l6 February 19^6, when the Economic and Social Council in implementa- tion of Article 68 of the Charter set up the Commission and decided that its first task should be to prepare a>draft international bill of rights. Mrs. Roosevelt was one of the nine initial members and the Chairman of the original so-called nuclear Commission which met at Hunter College, in this City, from 29 April to 20 May 1946. She was again elected Chairman of the Commission, at its first regular session, in February She also presided — with great patience, tact and understanding -- over the first session of the Commission's Drafting Committee and the second session of the Commission later in the same year, and the second session of the draft committee in 19^8. During this time • the international bill of rights, in three parts -- a declaration, a convention or conventions, and measures of implementation — began to take form. She was also Chairman of the third session of the Commission on Human Rights in 19^8, which was devoted to a careful word-by-word examination of each individual article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and to the preparation of a draft of that Declaration for consideration by the General Assembly. Later in the same year she participated, as representative of the United States of America, in the work of the Third Committee which devoted 85 meetings to the final drafting of the Declaration. In announcing in plenary session of the General Assembly the support of her Government for the Declaration, Mrs. Roosevelt prophesied that it would become the Magna Carta of all mankind. She felt that the proclamation of the Declaration by the General Assembly was comparable in importance to the proclamation in 1?89 of the French Declaration of the Rights of Man, the Declaration of Independence of her own country, and similar historic declarations made in other countries. History has already shown how right she was in her evaluation of the impact of this instrument. There is indeed a very close and special link between the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, of which she was one of the principal architects and our memories of Mrs. Roosevelt which, in the United Nations will remain ever fresh. She was one of the really great people of her time, a great American but also a great citizen of the world. On this eightieth birthday of the First Lady of the World, let us dedicate ourselves anew to the high ideals she had set — ideals which should serve as a beacon light for all generations to come. It is already nearly one year since Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt died, but she remains, and -will always remain, a very vivid memory in the minds of those of us who were fortunate enough to know her and to work with her; and even, I believe, of those who only knew of her. Mrs. Roosevelt required no special effort or treatment to make a strong impact during her lifetime or to be long remembered after her death - her personality, her ideals and her work were one combined force, and it is an unforgettable one. The Eleanor Roosevelt Memorial Foundation will be a most appropriate monument to her if it can carry on even a part of the great humanitarian work to which Mrs. Roosevelt devoted her life and her phenomenal energy. Mrs. Roosevelt was a dominant figure in the early years of the United nations, for she came nearer than anyone else ever has to being an actual embodiment of the commonly held ideals and aims of the peoples of the world. In the United Nations she was the centre of activities devoted to the fundamental decencies, and in her work in this area she rose above the typical day-to-day petty rivalries and political squabbles. Her personality, courage, generosity and dedication placed her in a class by herself and gave her a unique position of universal confidence and respect. She was thus able to pursue highly idealistic aims with the greatest energy without fear either of being misunderstood or of being -2- thought unrealistic or starry-eyed. She was in fact, in her own inimitable way, a very practical and down-to-earth person. She was also, as I said at the time of her death, truly the first lady of the world. It is, perhaps, misleading to try to single out her specific work in the United Nations from the main stream of her amazing range of activity, for the whole of it was based on a broad and affectionate humanitarianism. But this humanitarianism and her deep concern for the underprivileged found an historic focus in the United Nations - especially in the work of the Human Eights Commission, and in the proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. She could not only communicate with the oppressed and the exploited the world over, she could identify with them. When she spoke of rights and liberties, she evoked no mere theory but a practice and a way of life. Mrs. Roosevelt*s patient and untiring work as Chairman of the Commission on Human Rights and its Drafting Committee was a major factor in giving shape and substance to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It was she who, as one of the nine members of the original commission, proposed, as Chairman of its first session at Hunter College in the Bronx in April 19^6, that the bill of rights should be drafted in the form of a declaration or manifesto to be followed by conventions that would be legally binding on -3- states. This has been the "basis ever since of the United Nations approach to Human Rights. It was her persistence and tact which guided the immensely complicated work of drafting the Declaration in 19^7 and 19U8, and her energy and enthusiasm which sustained others in this great labour. As delegate of the United States on the Third Committee of the General Assembly, she was the guiding spirit of the 85 meetings which led finally to the text which was unanimously accepted by the Assembly in 19WJ. Though the impact of this historic document may well take generations to achieve its full force, its importance in the development of human institutions and in the place of the individual in history is already great and is increasing. Mrs. Roosevelt's signal contribution to this achievement was the formal counterpart of her tireless practical activity for the defenceless, the underprivileged or the unfortunate throughout the world as well as in her own country, and gives an historic frame to that activity. She was one of those rare individuals whose courage, vision and good-will - and indeed outright goodness - can light up a whole period of history and give comfort and hope to humanity even in times of the greatest anxiety and despair. She was a living, active symbol of generosity, selflessness and of a profound -it- in mankind's essential goodness and promise.
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