Evening star., 1943-06-20
BY JOSEPH H. BALL,

Senator from Minnesota
The fifth pillar in the commits
sicn's statement is:
The peace must establish proce-
dures lei controlling military estab-
lishments everywhere"
There are several basic and deep
rooted cauces CT war. But the i'm
mediate cause of all of the great
wars of modern times has been
either aggression or fear Of aggres-
sion. The majority of Christian ma
tions wanting peace have been
forced into armament races by few
nations whose power-hungry leaders
were arming for conquest. The re-
suit has been a powder keg OF
heavily armed nations waiting only
for the match of border incident
or a Shift in alliances to explode
into war. Procedures and machinery
to free all nations, great and small
from the constant fear of aggres-
sion are esSontio' to a lasting peace.
The First Step.
A system of collective security as
Implied in the fifth pillar, function
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litical organization of the first pill
lar, is the keystone CT the world
peace structure.
We must implement every one of
the six pillars, but it would be futile
to attempt the lengthy task of Solv-
ing world economic problems, raising
subject peoples to governing
status and fostering education, in
tellectual and spiritual freedom
throughout the world if it must be
done in an international atmosphere
of insecurity and fear. magnified by
the terrifying and ver-increasing
destructive IoICe OF modern war.
A workable system of international
security is the first step toward per-
manent peace and is, Furthermore,
the only condition under which in
oividual nations will even consider
giving up the right to create un-
limited ornaments for national de-
tense. Realistically, it is doubtful
whether nations will give up that
right until such a collective security
system has proved that it can pro-
tect individual nations against ag-
gressicn
Must Control Outlaws.
The overwhelming majority of in
dividual citizens obey our laws with
out any coercion. Yet we recognize
the need of policemen TO control
that minority who recognize no
moral obligation to the community.
Similarly, on the international level,
there must be some force to control
those outlaw nations whose leaders
recognize no moral obligation to the
world community. No nation, how
ever aggressive, will start a war
against overwhelming Odds There
fore, a necessary corollary to real
disarmament by nations must be the
creation of an international mill
tary force sufficiently strong to stop
aggression by such outlaw nations
The United Nations should begin
now organizing the peace. Disunity
Is already developing and, as the day
Of victory nears and the pressure of
immediate and common danger re-
lakes, that disunity is likely to in
crease rather than decrease.
With these facts in mind, two
Democratic and two Republican
Senators have introduced Senate
Resolution ia, which urges our
country to take the lead in forming
now United Nations organization
to establish machinery for peaceful
settlement of international disputes
and to provide for the assembly OF
a United Nations military force to
be used for the sole purpose of stop
ping future attempts at military. ag-
greSSiOn