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DURING the first autumn of the Second World War a Dellaration of Human Rights was drafted by Mr. H. G. Wells, who suggested that it should be adopted as a statement of Allied aims and an exprestion of the spirit in which we face life in general. More than nine years later the essence of the ten cluses proposed by Mr. Wells has found expression in the thirty articles of the Charter of Human Rights adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations in Paris on December 10. Much that has happened in the interval has engendered a certain scepticism as to the value of what can equally be described as a Declaration of Peace Aims. The long debates and discussions of the past two and a half years which have issued in the Charter seem at times to encourage the view that it is essentially a manifesto of ideological warfare expressing the ideals and beliefs of Western civilization.
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Human Rights and Peace. Nature 163, 189–191 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163189a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/163189a0