The Wilmington morning star., 1946-11-25
Voting In Shadow
BY ARTHUR KROCK

By ARTHUR KROCK
WASHINGTON, Nov. 24-The combination
between the Latin American and the Arab
states in the General Assembly of the United
Nations, which, in the opinion of the best re.
porters on the ground, has made even less
likely real modification Of the veto power OF
the permanent members of the U. N. Security
Council, proceeds logically from primary
causes. This was foreseen before and during
the San Francisco conference last year by
some who helped to draft the U. N. Charter,
end current consequence at Flushing Meadow
seemed to them foreshadowed in the vote at
that conference on the admission Of Argen-
tina.
1t will be recalled that Soviet Russia first
opposed the motion to admit and thea asked
for a breathing spell before the vote was taken.
On orders from Washington, redeeming an
implicit pledge made previously at Chapu1te-
pee by the same orders, the American delega-
ton formed a combination with Latin Ameri-
can and other states in favor Of the motion.
Soviet Russia's two attempts were defeated,
and though the Kremlin later entered into
a compact with Argentina, which it had de-
nounced at San Francisco as fascist" the
bloc idea was permenantly founded in U. N.
practice.
At one Of the conferences being held in
Princeton University to mark it's bicentennlal
year, DR.. Isaiah Bowman recently made this
history the subject of a very remarkable
paper. He was drafted early by Secretary Huh
to assist the State Department in preparing
what eventually became the U. N. Charter.
Some extracts from his Princeton paper are
especially timely now.
Pointing out that the Soviet Union at San
Francisco declined ito merge its plan for the
concrete and immediate control OF Germany
into a general plan and control by an untried
world organization" but preferred instead to
make treaties on the subject with Great Brit
ain, Czechoslovakia and France, DR.. Bowman
said:
San Francisco also revealed abruptly
what the Soviet Union might expect in the
future from Latin America, where church
and state leaders alike have come to fear
communism as an unexpected epidemic
in the disorder Of postwar reconstruction.
The vote on Argentina threw a long shadow
before it. If the Soviet Union sought ad-
vantage in the Western Hemisphere, it
was a stupid mistake to enlarge
tic activity so extravagantly in Latin
America during the war years.
Too many outspoken leaders Of Latin
America witnessing Soviet applicability
toward other systems, Soviet participation
in world organization seems a hollow
mockery. 1t became all too obvious that
Germany was but the immediate enemy
of the Soviet Union and that the roster
of enemies included all non-Soviet govern
ments throughout the world. Stains speech
Of Feb. 9, 1916, only confirmed explicitly
what Soviet actions had so long and clear
ly implied.
The troubles of Soviet origin in the Near
East, subsequent to San Francisco and grow
ing out Of Russia's determination to carry
out its own plan for security, explain the bloc
comfy at Flushing Meadow between the Arab
states and Latin America.
DR.. Bowman went on to tell his Prince
ton audience that, whenever the Soviets could
find new ways to enlarge their original pur-
pose, they sought to achieve them. AS exam
pies he cited the use Of the Economic and
Social Council and the Trusteeship Council
OF the U. N. to propagate communism and
attack capitalism. "a controlled press at
home" said DR.. Bowman, despite the spor-
adic exceptions that dissemble its true policy,
gives the Soviet government an unparrelled
advantage in a game which it insists on play
ing with loaded dice"
DR.. Bowman made these further observa-
tons:
Two incompatible systems have locked horns.
But that was not necessary. We made the first
advances toward world cooperation, and the
United States saw mo final difficulty in liv-
ing side by side with another system"
What has driven the Soviet leaders to such
extremes? Is it the fear Of an internal col
lapse? Whatever the reason, it appears that
the Soviet leaders are saying there can be no
world peace unless the world is first con-
verted to communism.
In diplomacy and in the press success is
claimed when immediate detectives are won.
Thus the superficial agreement and the friend
ly exchanges that represent good manners
merely are hailed as triunphs But this over
looks massive and fundamental facts of a
nations life" One of these is the Soviet bloc
and its screen at home is the charge OF
an Anglo-Arnerican bloc" for the moment
diverted by the presence of a very real Latin
Arnerlcan-Arab bloc at Flushing Meadow.
me needs OF war and self-preservation force
ue western allies to permit 1.-TWO totalitarians''
~ . : combined into one, s'conceivably more
powerful than either had been before" We