╥A memorable day for the peace-loving peoples of all nations╙ was how Mr. James Byrnes, Secretary of State, to-night described the ratification of the United Nations Charter planned at the San Francisco Conference. ╥The United Nations Charter is now part of the law of nations,╙ he said.
Twenty-nine nations have sent in their ratifications. They include Soviet Russia, whose ratification received to-day had been awaited to complete those of the Big Five nations, which were essential before the Charter could come into force.
Mr. Byrnes in a brief speech at the ceremony to-night said: ╥I have frequently said the maintenance of peace depends not upon any document but upon what is in the minds and hearts of men. But the peoples of this earth who yearn for peace must be organised to maintain that peace. This Charter provides the organisation.╙
While this ceremony was taking place Senator Glenn Taylor was introducing a resolution calling upon the United States to exert every effort to cope with the problems of the atomic age. ╥The United Nations Organisation may have been adequate at San Francisco,╙ he said, ╥but agreements among the sovereign nations will not suffice in this atomic age which has come into being since the San Francisco conference.╙
