Seeds Of Destiny (1946)

[Music] you [Music] children the human raw material of each shattered Nations tomorrow [Music] each Nations preview in flesh and blood of its future [Music] you [Music] pillars of a brave new world pillars of a brave new world ages from three to six and not even able to stand rickets age nine mother tortured father burned alive age ten lost her senses when shell swept her Dutch village age eight mother father sister and brother killed all around him and deliberate shellfire because they refused to leave the shelter of a ravine himself wounded aged eight she didn't know her strange new toy was a grenade ages 10 to 14 age three stunted and walked by nutritional deficiencies pillars of a brave new world separated from parents whose names they don't even remember roaming like wolf pack's stealing begging education neglected all normal influence gone living in filth and millions more like them from which will emerge new leaders new leaders who also will bear the burden of keeping the piece together for here too as well as in more fortunate nations are makers of tomorrow Willie beam you Einsteins Toscanini's Manuel caissons Madame Curie's Sun yat-sen's for new Hitler's Mussolini's Tojo's for the axis had carefully contrived a legacy a legacy designed to drag down neighbor nations in their future into one common ruin jeopardizing the next generation for the next round for Germany in particular had long practice at ripping the entire fabric of a nation's life so that a state of enduring weakness could be assured liberation or not liberated leading change the Czech village that once filled this entire Valley and then was wiped so completely off the face of the earth that not even ruble remain but all the women were sent to concentration camps of which these are among the surviving few for all the men and boys of the village were shot and buried in one common grave [Music] and all the little children sold for 50 marks apiece to various German families and perhaps lost forever the effects of which will linger long after men like these captured SS men who helped destroy Leda J have been tried and condemned and that Big Shot counterparts who created in a greater degree a design for destruction that made lead each a an ominous miniature of a design will do all of civilization a design detailed by Hitler himself from the last days of the Third Reich as he stated in essence he shall leave an inheritance of who in scored heap red epidemics I'm going this in thereby responsible ization trail decline rebirth through ins twisting whole countries into economic cripples weakness that will last for decades rebirth through stone heaps [Music] reducing human living to animal level rebirth through rats epidemics [Music] nothing reduces population like plague rebirth through hunger [Music] a starved nation cannot be a sturdy one and malnutrition leaves a lingering mark rebirth through death reducing and withering the mass population of all countries within reach so that the Germans and Japanese would remain the strongest physically and mentally come what may and thereby civilization shall decline nor was this final strategy of rebirth through common ruin something special broader that all Hitler only the German General Staff like the [ __ ] General Staff who are old hands at it these were the words of general fun one stood talking before the Berlin military academy at war's outset we Germans must number twice the population of our neighbors therefore we serve a compared to destroy one-third of the population of all it's April territories we can both the people who systemically unofficial in the end far superior dilution guns starvation works more effectively especially in the real starvation works more effective especially among the young [Music] unquestionably of all the victims in a program against whole populations the most pitiful have been the most precious the young even after liberation the heirs to the axis legacy of fear hunger and hate to be nourished in an atmosphere of desperation for a destiny of despair calculated to supply the new tools the new Hitler's Tojo's and Mussolini's of an even bloodier tomorrow but with the lesson of two world wars to learn from if any of us among the United Nations give fascism it's cunningly planned open road to revival by being fooled into neglecting this or this the axis legacy in action as the true cost in terms of tomorrow begins to show itself dissension distress despair doubt defeatism fertile soil for the seeds of world war free and significant signs of axis success in this the last battle and if we permit this to be the face of the future then truly there will be only one place in which to rest the full burden of blame on ourselves ourselves including those of a scrolling in the shaded streets of nations whose trees have not been stripped by shrapnel but whose homes have suffered neither burned or blast a lush land bearing no scar the scorched earth in the shops where shortage represents not death but merely temporary discomfort walking by schools and grounds were the only screams that have been heard were and are those of children at play and whose steeples stretched toward God unshadowed by the farmer's wing in this atmosphere the imagination no matter how vivid cannot convey the full meaning of what others have endured and still endure but to those homes were in the fateful telegrams have been delivered and the blue stars have given way to gold has come the evidence for geography is no bar to tragedy just as to all homes has been given the warning that people who do not understand history are doomed to repeat it [Music] too many men and Nations has come a conviction that the world simply cannot survive another war thus even as they meet in the hope of ending war forever the United Nations look to the first organization created an heir named Unruh United Nations relief and rehabilitation administration unruhe much criticized and much praised but still the only major source to which the United Nations pump into the veins and arteries of stricken people's around the earth the emergency items of relief and rehabilitation that serve as the plasma of peace [Music] items from six continents in seven seas [Music] [Applause] [Music] an outpouring from each nations heart to each war-stricken friend and labor hundreds of private relief with welfare organizations blend their efforts through andhra along with the contributions of the government themselves as all over the ravaged areas the tired heart of liberated nations fights to regain strength and vigor and a strong heart of the United Nations working hand in hand to help a welfare specialist from Australia a doctor from Cuba and a nurse from Belgium a child expert from England after a pootis from Ohio from Canada Norway South Africa China operating despite the handicaps of varied languages and learning constructive new lessons in international teamwork from very wisely has been said that the nations will learn to work together only by actually working together and by providing creeks and about official limbs for the crippled and disabled and teaching occupations that will enable Remender stand on our own feet again even though the feet themselves be artificial and with donated shoes learning to be shoe makers so that they may later serve their own villages and so the pulse of rehabilitation begins to beat again in the areas warped and withered by war but as opposed to beats feebly at first this pulse of restoration while little men labour and strive with whatever's at hand can be brought to hand [Music] and the mounds of supplies feed in a docks and in the warehouses melt down into inadequate my new portions carefully measured outs of a Norma Shearer and survive and work and homes are remade wherever roof is to be found that will provide shelter part of a brighter wing helps repair one house discarded gun covers keep the elements out of another so also on the farm is restoration sought despite the toll exact and daily by wars lethal leftovers for the food supply itself as a matter of life and death and wherever and whenever fuel can be obtained the smoke rises once more from family stoves and fire sides the return to normalcy takes on many forms even though it'd be a nightmare kind of normalcy [Music] unruhe is able to report progress but small in comparison to me for each nail driven a hundred thousand more are needed for each blanket given a thousand more must be given and the same with plows and seed and trucks and medicine and clothes and livestock and vitamins and food to turn rickety bodies into rugged bodies and turn frustrated populations once more into proud and prolific people's and all the other hundreds of items straining and exhausting straining and exhausting an initial Unruh budget of two billion dollars made up of 1% of each contributing nation's annual income two billion dollars less than the cost of five days of war five days of war without shaman ease of pain or lost arms legs minds five days without a single soldier having to give his life the cut-rate price of peace a peace purchase at a much higher price by men in whose heart cycled the words of Thomas Paine if there be trouble let it be in my time that my child may have peace peace - for those children already named in one war who must never experience or symbolize another [Music] what seeds of destiny will sprout from within these ravaged ranks and lands with a specter of famine stocks futures or new lovers of Liberty the answer it will hang in the balance throughout the immediate months and years for there's still a long way to go in this last battle a long way while men of good will everywhere face the challenge to shape a world in which each nation's upcoming generation and walk with hope and confidence the pods of peace and strive to meet the responsibilities and preserve the victories won by fighting men of the United Nations the hard ways and established once and for all that even stronger than the atomic bomb is the human heart [Music]