Forest Hills High School - Forester Yearbook (Forest Hills, NY)

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Nlarch 29, 1040 The Forester Forest Hills High School Forest Hills, New York To the Graduating Class ol June HMO: ln recent visits to schools and colleges l have lound that the young people ol' America are very conscious ahout the United Nations. There have heen discussions and meetings centered around the United Nations. There is no question that the youth of America comprise our most concerned supporters. Youth has a great importance in inlluencing puhlic opinion. By discussing at home with your parents what you have learned in school, you can prepare and clirect puhlic opinion. You can give the adults the history, lnacts and haclcground of events that happened len, lilteen and twenty years ago, which they may have forgotten. You can give them an appreciation of what is he-hind the headlines: headlines olten being their only contact with the news. ln the years to follow, as in the past three years. you may read and hear much of the political disagreements in the U.N. But remember that it is perfectly natural lor people to pay more attention to a discussion or a quarrel than to a good steady ioh ol worlc. To those people who tallc ol delaying the next war, l say that it is senseless to spealc of such a delay, because if there is anything certain about another war, it is that the passage of time will not make it any less deadly. Another war would he a catastrophe, tomorrow, five years from now, or in the year 20003 it is foolish to try to pretend otherwise. To you young people -fl would like to repeat what 1 said at the Herald Trihune Forum last year: XVe can build the world we want only if the nations as a whole live together peacefully and work together loyalty to realize the principles ol the San Francisco Charter. There is no other way. . . f