Acknowledgments
Grateful acknowledgment for assistance kindly and generously given is made to:
Dr. V. John Murgolo, concerning medical matters. Earl Mazo, concerning his hometown of Charleston. Matthew Gordon and other good friends of the Press Section and the Secretariat of the United Nations.
Excerpt from speech of Senator Harold Fry to the General Assembly, “Hal Fry’s Book”:
“Oh, Mr. President! How does mankind stand, in this awful hour? Where does it find, in all its pomp and pride and power, the answer to its own fateful divisions? Where on this globe, where in this universe, is there any help for us? Who will come to our aid, who have failed so badly in our trusteeship of the bounteous and lovely earth? Who will save us, if we do not save ourselves?
“I say to you, my friends, no one will. No one will. We are wedded to one another, it may be to our death, it may be to our living. We cannot escape one another, however hard we try. Though we fly to the moon and far beyond, we shall take with us what is in our hearts, and if it be not pure, we shall slaughter one another where’er we meet, as surely on some outward star as here on earth.
“This is the human condition—that we cannot flee from one another. For good, for ill, we await ourselves behind every door, down every street, at the end of every passageway. We try to remain apart: we fail. We try to hide: we are exposed. Behind every issue here, behind the myriad quarrels that make up the angry world, we await, always and forever, our own discovery. And nothing makes us better than we are.
“Mr. President, I beg of you, here in this body of which men have hoped so much and for which they have already done so much, let us love one another!
“Let us love one another!
“It is all we have left.”
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