President Truman addressing United Nations Security Conference, San Francisco, June 1945
Photograph. U.S. President Harry S. Truman addressing United Nations Security Conference. Official Caption: "Rome. 7/9/45--Truman addresses Security Conference--U.S. President Harry S. Truman addresses the closing session of the United Nation Conference on International Organization at San Francisco on June 26, 1945. Men and women of the U.S. Armed Forces stand in the background at this momentous scene in world history, when delegates from 50 nations had completed plans for world peace. President Truman told them: 'You have created a great instrument for peace and security and human progress in the world. The world must now use it. If we fail to use it, we shall betray all those who have died in order that we might meet here in freedom and safety to create it.'--AP Photo approved by appropriate military authority--Serviced by Rome OWI (A List Out) 7038."San Francisco, California. 26 June 1945