Atlanta Daily World

Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt
At North Carolina College

DURHAM, N. C. - The hydrogen bomb and racial discrimination were among the perils to world peace listed here this week by Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt in an address in B. N. Duke Auditorium at North Carolina College.

Mrs. Roosevelt, United States representative to the General Assembly of the United Nations and chairman of the UN's Commission on Human Rights, discussed the work of the commission in her main speech. In a question and answer period afterwards, however, she scored Russia and her satellites for declining to grant freedom to their people, and she deplored the sad policy of the present government of South Africa towards that country's colored majorities.

The widow of the wartime president spoke before an overflow crowd during the annual Women's Assembly Day observance, which is traditionally the highlight of the year's program for North Carolina College's undergraduate women.

Miss Carolyn Smith, New Bern, N. C. senior, and granddaughter of the late Dr. Jane E. Shepard, founder of North Carolina College, presided during the noon program and introduced Dean of Women Louise M. Latham, who presented Mrs. Roosevelt to the capacity audience. One of the features of the program was the presentation to Mrs. Roosevelt of a check for $25 for the Wilberforce Boys' School by Miss Mary Bettis, Washington, D. C. senior.

WORLD WIDE DOCUMENT

Pointing out that the Commission on Human Rights is charged with drafting a world-wide document to insure the freedom and rights of all peoples, Mrs. Roosevelt said the absence of such a universal document in the past contributed to World War II.

In the United Nations, a great many felt that one of the causes of World War II was the abrogation of human rights," she said. Mrs. Roosevelt went on to add that the conscience of the world rebelled at such action.

"For the first time in human history," she said, speaking of the commission's efforts to draft an international Bill of Human Rights and freedoms and dignity of the human personality being thought about and acted on at an international level.

America's former First Lady here are many difficulties involved in the attempt to get the 59 member nations of the UN to agree in what the United States means by human rights and freedom. Among the very real difficulties which the commission faces, she said, were variations in the development of UN-member nations, differences in culture, language, and legal systems.

In spite of the difficulties which confront the delegates, Mrs. Roosevelt emphasized in her address and reiterated in the question and answer discussion afterwards the UN is laying the groundwork for the pattern of peace which must eventually unite mankind if it is to survive.

After her address Mrs. Roosevelt answered questions from the floor. It was during this period that she told one student interrogator that the United States development of the hydrogen bomb would, at likelihood, touch off new charges by Soviet Russia that the United States is preparing for war.

Although Mrs. Roosevelt said she did not think announcement of this country's intention of developing the "H" bomb would disrupt any activities she did say the announcement "would add to USSR insistence that we are preparing for a war," she said.