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Written by Benét at the request of the Librarian of Congress Archibald MacLeish, to be read by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, after the United Nations Flag Day broadcast of Toward the Century of the Common Man on the NBC radio network (14 June 1942), for which Benét also wrote the closing speech. FDR introduced this prayer with the statement: "The brazen tyrannies pass. Man marches forward toward the light. I am going to close by reading you a prayer that has been written for the United Nations on this day." This prayer was later published in War Messages of Franklin D. Roosevelt, December 8, 1941 to October 12, 1942 (1942) and We Stand United and Other Radio Scripts (1945). (en) |
