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dated December 3, 1953: Mrs. Pandit Corrects A Report

Mrs. Vijayalakshmi Pandit issued a statement correcting a report in a New York daily which, she said, had misrepresented her views on the United Nations; the daily had misquoted her as saying that the U.N. Charter was a "mass of words whose grandeur once moved people to tears, but it is now only laughed at", and that "the Charter is a thing all of us hide behind when we do not want to fulfil our obligations."

Mrs. Pandit pointed out that what she actually said concerned the pressing need then to create the right climate for world peace. Addressing a gathering of women in New York on world affairs, she had actually said: " ... Some misquote the Charter for their own ends. In fact, it has become a sap to their conscience. People are content to say, `We have this Charter and need not bother any more,' implying that merely to have produced the document is enough. Instead of being implemented, the Charter has thus merely become a string of words. That is not the way to peace." In her statement made to put the record straight, Mrs. Pandit said that what she had said on New York was something very different from expressing disillusionment with the whole United Nations, as the daily had attempted to portray.

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