Seeds of Destiny

[Music] [Music] e [Music] [Music] children the human raw material of each shattered nation's [Music] tomorrow each nation's preview in Flesh and Blood of its [Music] future pillars of the Brave New World pillars of the Brave New World ages from 3 to six and not even able to stand rickets age nine mother tortured father burned alive age 10 lost her senses when shells swept her Dutch Village age eight mother father sister and brother killed all around him in deliberate shellfire because they refused to leave the shelter of a ravine himself wounded age eight she didn't know her strange new toy was a grenade ages 10 to 14 age three stunted and warped by nutritional deficiencies pillars of the Brave New World separated from parents whose names they don't even [Music] remember Roman like wolf packs stealing begging education neglected all normal influence gone living in filth and millions more like them from which will emerge new leaders new leaders who also will bear the burden of keeping the peace together for here too as well as in more fortunate Nations are makers of [Music] Tomorrow will they be new Einstein tuscanini Manuel quaison Madame C's sonat s or new Hitlers molinis toos for the axis had carefully contrived a legacy a legacy designed to drag down neighbor Nations and their future into one common ruin jeopard Rising the Next Generation for the next round for Germany in particular had had long practice at ripping the entire fabric of a nation's life so that a state of enduring weakness could be assured Liberation or [Music] not liberated leich the Czech Village that once filled this entire Valley and then was wiped so completely off the face of the Earth that not even Rubble remained for all the women were sent to concentration camps of which these are among the surviving few where all the men and boys of the village were shot and buried in one common grave and all the little children sold for 50 Mar s a piece to various German families and perhaps lost forever the effects of which will linger long after men like these captured SS men who helped destroy L have been tried and condemned and their big shot counterparts who created in a greater degree a design for Destruction that made leiche an ominous miniature of the design will to all of civilization a design detailed by Hitler himself in the last days of the Third Reich as he stated in essence we shall leave an inheritance of ruins Stone heaps rats epidemics hunger and death and thereby Western Civilization shall decline rebirth through ruins twisting whole countries into economic cripples weakness that will last for decades rebirth through Stone heaps reducing human living to animal level rebirth through rats [Music] epidemics nothing reduces population like plague rebirth through hunger a starved Nation cannot be a sturdy one and Mal nutrition leaves a lingering Mark rebirthed through death reducing and withering the mass popul ation of all countries Within Reach so that the Germans and Japanese would remain the strongest physically and mentally Come What May and thereby civilization shall decline nor was this final strategy of rebirth through common ruin something special born of Adolf Hitler only the German general staff like the [ __ ] general staff were old hands at it these were the words of general f rad talking before the Berlin Military Academy at War's outset we Germans must number twice the population of our neighbors therefore we shall be compelled to destroy oneir of the population of all adjacent territories we can best achieve this through systematic malnutrition in the end far superior to machine guns starvation Works more effectively especially among the Young starvation Works more effective especially among the [Music] [Music] Young [Music] unquestionably of all the victims in the program against whole populations the most pitiful have been the most precious the young even after Liberation the a to the axis Legacy of fear hunger and hate to be nourished in an atmosphere fear of desperation for a destiny of Despair calculated to supply the new tools the new Hitler's Tojo and molinis of an even bloodier [Music] tomorrow but with the lesson of two world wars to learn from if any of us among the United Nations give fascism its cunningly planned open road to Revival by being fooled into neglecting this for this the axis leg in action as the true cost in terms of Tomorrow begins to show itself dissension distress despair doubt defeatism fertile soil for the seeds of World War II and significant signs of axis success in this the last battle and if we permit this to be the face of the future then truly there will be only one place in which to rest the full burden of blame on ourselves ourselves including those of us strolling in the Shaded streets of Nations whose trees have not been Stripped by shrap and whose homes have suffered neither burn nor blast un Lush land bearing no scar of a scorched Earth in the shops where shortage represents not death but merely temporary discomfort walking by schools and grounds where they only scre thems that have been heard were and are those of children at play and whose Steeples stretch toward God unshadowed by the bomber's wing in this atmosphere the imagination no matter how Vivid cannot convey the full meaning of what others have endured and still endure but to those homes wherein the Fateful telegrams have been delivered and the blue stars have given way to Gold has come the evidence that geography is no bar to tragedy jti as to all homes has been given the warning that people who do not understand history are doomed to repeat it to many men and Nations has come the conviction that the world simply cannot survive Another War thus even as they meet in the hope of ending War forever the United Nations look at the first organization created in their name unra United Nations relief and Rehabilitation Administration anra much criticized and much praised but still the only major source through which the United Nations pump into the veins and arteries of stricken peoples around the earth the emergency items of relief and Rehabilitation that serve as the plasma of peace [Music] items from six continents and seven [Music] [Applause] [Music] seas and outpouring from each nation's heart to each War stricken friend and neighbor hundreds of private relief and Welfare organizations blend their efforts through unra along with the contributions of the governments themselves as all over the ravaged areas the tired heart of liberated Nations fights to regain strength and vigor and a strong heart of the United Nations working hand in hand to help a welfare specialist from Australia a doctor from Cuba and a nurse from Belgium a child expert from England a therapeutist from Ohio from Canada Norway South Africa China operating despite the handicaps of varied languages and learning constructive new lessons in international teamwork for it very wisely has been said that the Nations will learn to work together only by actually working together and by providing treatment and artificial limbs for the crippled and disabled and teaching occupations that will enable the men to stand on their own feet again even though the feet themselves be artificial and with donated shoes learning to be shoemakers so that they may later serve their own Villages and so the pulse of Rehabilitation begins to beat again in the areas warped and withered by War it is a pulse that beats feebly at first this pulse of restoration while little men labor and strive with whatever is at hand that can be brought to [Music] hand and the Mounds of supplies seen in the docks and in the warehouses melt down into inadequate minute portions carefully measured out so that all may share and survive and [Music] work and homes are remade wherever a roof is to be found that will provide shelter part of a glider Wing helps repair one house discarded gun covers keep the elements out of another so also on the farm is restoration sought despite the toll exacted daily by War lethal leftovers for the food supply itself is a matter of life and death and wherever and whenever fuel can be obtained the smoke Rises once more from family stoves and firesides the return to normaly takes on many forms even though it be a nightmare kind of normaly unra is able to report progress but small in comparison to need for each nail driven a 100,000 more are needed for each blanket given a thousand more must be given and the same with plows and seed and trucks and medicine and clothes and livestock and vitamins and food to turn rickety bodies into rugged bodies and turn Prost ated populations once more into proud and prolific peoples and all the other hundreds of items straining and exhausting straining and exhausting an initial onr budget of $2 billion made up of 1% of each contributing nation's annual income 2 billion do less than the cost of 5 days of War five days of War without shies or pain or lost arms legs Minds 5 days without a single soldier having to give his life The Cut Rate price of Peace a piece purchased at a much higher price by men in whose Hearts echoed the words of Thomas pain if there be trouble Let It Be in my time that my child may have peace peace too for those children already named in one war who must never experience or symbolize [Music] another what seeds of Destiny will Sprout From Within These ravaged ranks and lands with a spectre of famine stalks new furors or new lovers of Liberty the answer it will hang in the balance throughout the immediate months and years for there's still a long way to go in this last battle a long way while men of Good Will everywhere face the challenge to shape a world in which each nation's upcoming generation can walk with hope and confidence the paths of peace and strive to meet the responsibilities and preserve the victories won by fighting men of the United Nations the hard way and establish once and for all that even stronger than the atomic bomb is the human heart [Music] [Music] no