På Dem, hr. formand, fredens pen, for De er fra min generation, De er barn af et fredens Europa snarere end af et Europa omspændt af de flammer, som tidligere opslugte kontinentet, en mand med sine egne personlige ar.
They turned to you, Mr President, the scribe of peace, for you are of my generation, a son of a Europe at peace rather than in the flames by which it had previously been consumed, a man with your own personal wound.