[Prayer.] Stephen Vincent Benét.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Benét, Stephen Vincent, 1898-1943.

Contributor:

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United Nations.

Physical Description:

1 page ; 13 cm

Edition:

[First edition ?].

Other Title:

United Nations Prayer

Prayer for the United Nations

God of the free, we pledge our lives and hearts today ...

Place of Publication:

[Springfield, Mass.] : [F. A. Bassette Co.], [1942?]

Notes:

Prayer begins with "God of the free, we pledge our lives and hearts today to the cause of all free mankind."

Signed at end: Stephen Vincent Benet.

Archibald MacLeish, poet and Librarian of Congress asked Benét to write a "United Nations Prayer" to be used in the celebration of Flag Day, 1942. President Franklin D. Roosevelt used it to close his radio address June 12, 1942. Adlai E. Stevenson used the final section of this prayer on his Christmas cards in 1964.

An unauthorized printing ordered & paid for by Mrs. W.C. Lawton; 25,000 copies printed by the F.A. Bassette Co. of Springfield, Mass., for distribution through army chaplains.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has [1] loose leaf bearing a catalog description of this item laid in.

OCLC:

10854295