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[[preprinted]]United States Mission To The United Nations
                                                              2 Park Avenue                                 New York 16, N.Y. 
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FOR RELEASE FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 1955 [[underlined]]                      Press Release #2131
[[underlined]]AT 4:00 P.M., E.S.T.[[/underlined]]                     March 18, 1955

MESSAGE FROM AMBASSADOR HENRY CABOT LODGE, JR., UNITED STATES REPRESENTATIVE TO THE UNITED NATIONS, TO THE UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE CONVOCATION.

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    It is a privilege to greet you on the occasion of the 1955 United Negro College Convocation. 

    The visit of so many distinguished American educators to the United Nations is especially significant and impressive to me as representative of the United States at the United Nations.  Your visit is a vivid demonstration of the place of Americans of the Negro race in every phase of our national life, including our foreign relations. 

    The greatest purpose of the United Nations is to prevent war.  You know that American liberty in the past has often been preserved at the price of American lives.  Many of your sons and 
brothers have died for freedom, in our own generation, on battle-

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