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I.L.O. So I said, “I don't know whether Mr. Eden described to you our conversation when he was here, about the I.L.O., but I want to describe to you the International Labor Organization, and I want to get your assent to putting it in the Charter. The President, I think, wants it done. At least he's aware of it. He's familiar with it.”

And I laid out the old memorandum to Winston Churchill. I mean, I had no memorandum with me, but I followed the outline of it in my talk with him about just what the I.L.O. was, how it originated, what its his tory had been, how it had survived the War--which indicated inner strength to me, really great inner strength, and very excellent organization. I always have felt that any international body that had representatives of the people themselves on it would stand a much better chance of surviving than one that was purely a relationship of Governments. I think the Governments have to be there, of course, but I mean to have popular representation as well as Government representation, I think, is essential. And I still think it's what's essential in the United Nations. I don't know that we can have it now, but I think that if we could have had it originally, I think it would have had a better future than it has. I certainly think it's the strong point of I.L.O. So I laid this all out to him, and he sat beside me and he grunted, “Uh. Uh. Uh. “Just a series of grunts, nodding





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