Evening star., 1946-10-13
|Baruch Calls on j. s.
To Stand Firmly for
Freedom Principles
lY the Assoeisted Pre.s

/ NEW YORK, Oct. 12.l-Bernart
I'M. Baruch tonight called on tht
United States to champion the prin.
lciples Of freedom, which he termed
the formula Of victory and sur.
vival, and to resist pressure to for
sake democracy.
Mr.. Baruch, United States dele
gate to the United Nations Atomic
Energy Commission. said In address.
ling the Tooth anniversary dinner
1of the College OF the City Of New
York:
1--WE must bring reinsurance to
those countries where there Is
lreal and existing fear Of freedom
| II is to be seen IN the disposition
toward paternalism. In which
thought and action fow from q
higher level than the people them
selves.
Security must come from within
It can never last II 1t comes from
1.-THE top down; 1t must rise from ths
bottom"
Concerned With World Affairs.
He said that anything that hap
lpens anywhere is OF deep concern te
us-the world can no longer be par.
titioned or put into separate COM
partments or even spheres"
He then turned to domestic prob
lens with this statement:
1.-The issues as regards this coun-
TRY must be settled, and by our
selves, with no pressure from with
| out or stimulation from false friends
within our ranks.
MANY light thinkers cry out fol
change. We are beseeched, cajoled
threatened, to alter our form OF
government-to elevate the state
Unto a mastery Of the individual-to
give us the priceless right of free
speech, Of free thought, or free re-
Ngion, OF free initiative, Of free
opportunity.
"But the human being Is more
than a mere physical mechanism-it
Is more than q cog In the wheels Of
. Observation-Disclosures 1t be Of the
right or Of the left"
Tests Of Freedom Listed.
Mr.. Baruch said that we rule In
democracies not by violence but by
consent and that changes are ac-
complished by the exercise Of free
will, not by guns, not by imprison-
ment, not by secret police, not by
force.
He listed the following as tests Of
freedom:
II. Is there the right to free ex-
preston Of opinions and Of opposi-
tion and criticism Of the govern
ment Of the day? 81
-. Have the people the right TO
turn out . government Of which
they disapprove. and are constitu-
tional means provided by which
they can make their will apparent?
g. Are there courts Of justice,
free from violence by the executive
and free of all threats OF mob yio-
lence and all association with any
particular political parties?
=. VIII these courts administer
open and well-estAblished laws
which are associatedsin the human
mind with the broad principles Of
decency and justice?
Is. Will there be fair play for
pocr as well as for rich, for private
persons as well IS Government Of
ficials?
IS. win the rights of the indi-
vidual, subject to his duties to the
state, be maintained and asserted
and exalted?
4 ~. Is the oedinary peasant or
workman, card ae a11iying BY daily
ton and strivinJ Ito bring up q fam
lily, free from the fear that some
grim police organization. under the
control of single party like the
Gestapo started by the Nazis and
Fascist parties. will tap him on the
shoulder and pack him Oh. without
fair or open trial. to bondage q
Ill treatment?" 7