“There is only one action over which indifferent stars and unchanging rivers have no sway: it is the action of a man who snatches something from death”
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On 8 March 1960, for the first time, the nations, though many of them even now are engaged in overt or open conflict, have been summoned to save by a united effort the fruits of a civilization on which none has a preemptive claim.