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Remarks Delivered by Lewis L. Strauss, Chairman,
U. S. Atomic Energy Commission
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Conference on the Statute of the International Atomic Energy Agency
United Nations, New York, Sept. 20, 1956
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It is my privilege and great honor, on behalf of my fellow
countrymen, to welcome you to the United States for the historic
deliberations which you are about to undertake.
I bring you warmest greetings from President Eisenhower and his
sincere good wishes for the success of this conference.
The fervent prayers of a]1 mankind attend your labors here.
Peoples of many lands look hopefully to you -- not alone to spread the
bounties of the beneficent atom that their lives may become healthier,
and more abundant -- but that in so doing you will also provide the
foundations upon which a durable structure of peaceful understanding will
eventually be erected.
This is the largest conference of nations to be held since the end
of the Great War, indeed perhaps the largest in the entire history of
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international collaboration.
Thus, your voice can be the voice of humanity
itself, the conscience of the world of men.