Citing the United Nations’ action to outlaw genocide and to guarantee human rights throughout the world as outstanding achievements in the struggle to build a better world, Jacob Blaustein, president of the American Jewish Committee, today called for the celebration of United Nations Day (Oct. 24) as a world-wide legal holiday, in a statement issued here.
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