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FOREWORD
Many books have been written about the United Nations. Some good. Some not. Most of them for adult readers. I welcome this book especially because it is different in its aim. It seeks to tell the story of the United Nations for the youngest readers. It is an interesting, even a thrilling story for readers of any age. By its words and its pictures, set forth in clear and simple terms and lines, this book, I believe, catches very much of the meaning of the United Nations.
I feel that this little volume will achieve its purpose. It is not, I am sure, beyond the ken of a child, even a very young one, to understand and to know something about living at peace with one's neighbors and in one's surroundings, about elemental justice and the hurt of injustice, about one's own rights and respecting the rights of others, and about helping those around us who are in sore need of help. The young readers of this book know about such things in their play relations and in their relations with the adults surrounding them. Indeed, young ones at times appear to be more sensitive to matters of this kind than some of their elders. This book will give its young readers a broader an international setting for their thinking and thereby help to widen the reader's horizon. In these critical times the facts of international life need to be taught at the tenderest age.
Certainly no reader has a greater stake in the United Nations than those youngest ones who will peruse this book, with entire lives ahead of them in a world which is unlikely to survive unless the United Nations can preserve peace in it.
RALPH J. BUNCHE
Under-Secretary for Special Political Affairs United Nations
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