tion invited states which had not acceded to the general convention to do so at the earliest possible moment. The Representative of the United States abstained from voting on this resolution on the ground that it raised a matter within the exclusive congressional prerogative of the United States Government.

The General Assembly adopted a resolution approving supplementary agreements between the United Nations and the International Civil Aviation Organization, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, respectively, entitling the officials of those organizations to the use of United Nations laissez-passer.

PART C

Appendixes

APPENDIX I

ADDRESS BY SECRETARY OF STATE GEORGE C. MARSHALL BEFORE THE THIRD SESSION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1948

We are particularly happy to meet here in Paris. France has, through the centuries, nourished the arts and sciences for the enrichment of all mankind and its citizens have striven persistently for expanding freedom for the individual. It is entirely fitting that this General Assembly, meeting in France which fired the hearts of men with the Declaration of the Rights of Man in 1789, should consider in 1948 the approval of a new Declaration of Human Rights for free men in a free world.

Not only is it appropriate that we should here reaffirm our respect for the human rights and fundamental freedoms but that we should renew our determination to develop and protect those rights and freedoms. Freedom of thought, conscience and religion; freedom of opinion and expression; freedom from arbitrary arrest and detention; the right of a people to choose their own government, to take part in its work, and, if they become dissatisfied with it, to change it; the obligation of government to act through law-these are some of the elements that combine to give dignity and worth to the individual.

The Charter of the United Nations reflects these concepts and expressly provides for the promotion and protection of the rights of man, as well as for the rights of nations. This is no accident. For in the modern world, the association of free men within a free state is based upon the obligation of citizens to respect the rights of their fellow citizens. And the association of free nations in a free world is based upon the obligation of all states to respect the rights of other nations.

Systematic and deliberate denials of basic human rights lie at the root of most of our troubles and threaten the work of the United Nations. It is not only fundamentally wrong that millions of men and women live in daily terror of secret police, subject to seizure,