The extermination of entire human groups impairs the selfpreservation of civilization itself. The recent genocidal acts committed by the Nazi Government have placed heavy burdens and responsibilities on other countries. including our own. The millions of dollars spent by the United States alone on refugees. many of them victims of genocide. and the special immigration laws designed to take care of such unfortunates illustrate how genocide can deeply affect other states. On September 23. 1948. Secretary of State Marshall stated that"Governments which systematically disregard the rights of their own people are not likely to respect the rights of other nations and other people and are likely to seek their objectives by coercion and force in the international field." It is not surprislig. therefore. to find the General Assembly of the United Nations unanimously declaring that genocide is a matter of international concern.
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