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The high point of the commemoration at San Francisco was provided by the distinguished SecretaryGeneral of the United Nations. U Thant. who summarized the achievements and shortcomings of the world organization in a 20year balance sheet. and then went on to ask and answer these fundamental questions: Is it really only the scourge of war or the lash of terror that can make us move toward the goal of peace and justice In the world? Can we not make the effort to advance out of our own sense of responsibility and knowledge. rather than be driven like refugees before a storm which may be unleashed by our own inability to take hold of the future? I believe not only that we can. but that we must. make the effort. That meeting of. the United Nations was almost the last important conference in which the United States was represented by the late Adlai E.