U.N. Declaration
It is not true, as stated in a May 9 letter, that the U.S. did not sign the U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights. On Dec. 10, 1948, the General Assembly of the U.N. adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by a vote of 48-0, with eight abstentions. The U.S. voted in favor. The chairperson of the commission that drafted the declaration was former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt.
Irving Sarnoff
Founder, Friends of the United Nations, Santa Monica
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