Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-06-26
National Drive Beqinsl
10 GET Public Support
For Security Charter
BY JOSEPH H. BAIRD.

A Nationwide campaign to arouse
public interest in the United Nations
charter to be signed today in San
Francisco and to obtain its ratifica-
ton by the Senate has been opened
by number OF national organiza-
tions.
AS part of this effort, Amer.
leans United for World Organiza.
ton, headed by President Ernest M.
Hopkins OF Dartmouth College, an
nounced today that a patriotic,
veterans, church and educational
groups had joined in q plan to
celebrate the Fourth of July by
studying the San Francisco charter.
At the same time, the American
Association for the United Nations,
successor to the old League of Ma
tons Association, made public a
study declaring that the future peace
and security of the United States
was dependent on the Senate's ap-
proval OF the new world organiza-
ton. If America failed to ratify
this document as it did the League
OF Nations Covenant, the organiza-
ton declared, the world would face
a period of chaotic internecine war;
fare among power blocks.
Call for July 4 Meetings.
The AZ organizations which acted
through Americans United issued
manifesto calling on governors and
mayors throughout the country
to issue proclamations requesting
Fourth of July meetings everywhere
to study the charter.
Recognizing that no device can
be effective without positive and
continuing support of the peoples
themselves" the manifesto said,
we call upon the people of this
great democracy to express their
determination that this charter
shall mark the birth of an orderly
and peaceful world society, so that
the great sacrifices of the United
Nations may not be vitiated by re-
curing wars"
Americans United said that the
manifesto had been called to the at
tention Of President Truman, who
had been asked to take some action
encouraging the discussion of the
charter at July Fourth celebrations.
They added that at town meetings
being held throughout the country,
straw ballots were being taken in an
effort to determine public opinion
toward the new United Nations or.
ganization.
A recent poll taken by the Asso-
ciated Press indicated that the nee
essary two-thirds vote for ratifica.
ton could be obtained in the Sem
ate.
Contends Senate Faces Choice.
In study prepared for the United
Nations Association by Livingston
HARTLEY, former writer for the
Washington Post and until recently
a Navy lieutenant commander, he
commended that the Senate, in voting
on the charter, faces choice be-
tween an organized world and a
struggle between power blocs.
In that kind of struggle for sur
vival," the study said, there would
be mounting pressure to change our
form OF government, to reduce the
control of Congress over national
policy and give the President per-
manent authoritarian powers. As
the next world war doomed nearer
and the danger from overseas power
blocs grew, this pressure could sweep
all obstacles away"
Among the organizations signing
the manifesto made public by Amer
cans United were the American
Federation Of Labor, the American
Legion, the Congress of Industrial ,
Disabled American ,
Veterans, the Federal Council of ,
the Catholic Association i
for International Peace and the /
Young Women's Christian Associa-
ton.