The Rotary Balita no. 683 (October 25, 1951)

Manila Rotary joins Rotary International and the world community of nations in the observance of United Nations Week ending today. It is but fitting and proper that an organization like Rotary consider the occasion of UN Week us highly significant. Antedating the United Nations, Rotary International has always stood for its objectives and will always stand for them. The search for peace is not an unconditional search. It must be a peace of honor a peace of freedom and a peace of democracy in the concept of the Four Freedoms and of the freedom of opportunity which no other ideology but democracy recognize fully and completely. Any other peace but which is not based on the foregoing considerations is false. The peace of Communism is false because it is based on the harnessing of the will of men and nations. Regimentation mutilates freedom; it would delimit man's capacity as an individual to the exigencies of a totalitarian state. If we have but one thing to remember on the occasion of the anniversary of the foundation of the United Nations, it is this: The union of states and peoples can endure only so long as each and every one of them are co-equal before international law and as long as the basis of peace is the recognition of and respect for international order under a regime of true freedom and enforceable justice.