Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-06-14
by the Associafed Press

representative to the Atomic
Energy Commission OF the United
Natiors, at the opening session
OF the commission today.
My fellow members of the United
Nations Atomic Energy Commission
and
My fellow citizens of the world:
We are here to make a choice be
tween the quick and the dead.
That Is our business.
BEHIND the black portent of tn
new ato.lic age lies a hope which
seized upon with faith, can worl
our salvation. If we fail, then WI
have damned every man to be thu
slave 1pf fear Let us not deceive
ourselves: We must elect worlt
peace or world destruction.
Science has torn from nature /,
secret SO vast in its potentialitie
that our minds cover from the ter
ror it creates Yet terror is no
enough to inhibit the use of tn
atomic bomb. The terror created
by weapons has never stopped mar
from employing them. For eacl
new weapon a defense has beer
produced, IN time But now we fac,
a condition in which adequate de-
tense does not exist.
Science. which gave us this dreac
power, shows that it can be made
giant help to humanity. bu
science does not show us how tt
prevent its baleful use. So we have
been appointed to obviate that peri
by finding a meeting of the minds
and the hearts of our peoples
Only in the will of mankind lies
the answer.
It is TO express this will and make
It effective that we have beer
assembled. We must provide the
mechanism to assure that atomic
energy is used for peaceful purposes
and preclude its use in war. TT
that end, we must provide immedi-
ate, swift and sure punishment OF
those who violate the agreements
that are reached by the Nations.
Formulation Essential.
Formulation is essential if peace
Is to be more than feverish inter.
Jude between wars. And, too, the
United Nations can prescribe in.
dividual responsibility and punish.
ment on. the principles applied al
Nuremberg by the Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics. the United King
dom. France and the United States
"a formula certain to benefit the
worlds future.
In this crisis, we represent moi
only our governments but, in 6
larger way. we represent the peoples
of the world. We must remember
that the people do not belong tt
the governments but that the gov.
ernments belong to the peoples
We must answer their demands;
we must answer the worlds longing
for peace and security.
In that desire the United States
shares ardently and hopefully, the
search of science for the absolute
weapon has reached fruition in this
country. But she stands ready
to prescribe and destroy this instru-
ment-to lift its use from death tt
life-if the world will join in pac
to that end.
In our success lies the promise OF
a new life, freed from the heart
stopping fears that now beset the
world. The beginning of victory
for the great ideals for which mil
lions have bled and died lies in
building workable plan. Now We
approach fulfllment of the aspira-
lions of mankind. At the end Of
the road lies the fairer, better, surer
life we crave and mean to have.
Can Erect Safeguard.
Only by a lasting peace are lib
critics and democracies strengthened
and deepened. War is their enemy
And it will not do to believe that
any of us can escpae wars devasta.
ton. Victor, vanquished and neutraL
alike are affected physically, eco
nomically and morally.
Against the degradation of war We
can erect safeguard. That is the
guerdon for which we reach. With
in the scope of the formula We out
line here, there will be found, to
those who seek it, the essential ele-
ments of our purpose. Others will
see only emptiness. Each of us
carries his own mirror in which is
reflected hope-or determined des-
peration-courage or coWardice.
There is a famine throughout tn,
world today. 1t starves mems bodies
But there is a greater famine-th'
hunger of mems spirit. That star.
walton can be cured by the con.
quest of tear, and the substitution
Of hope, from which springs faith
faith in each other, faith that WI
want to work together toward sal
walton; and determination tina
those who threaten the peace ane
safety shall be punished.
the peoples of these democra
cies gathered here have particu
lar concern with our answer, fol
their peoples hate war. They vii
have a heavy eXaction to make Of
those who fail to provide an escape
They are not afraid of an interna.
tionalism that protects; they art
unwilling to be fobbed off by mouth.
ings about narrow sovereignty
which is today's phrase for yester.
days isolation.
RaSiS Of Sound Policy
The basis of a sound foreign pol.
icy, in this new age, for all the
nations here gathered. is that: Any.
thing that happens, no matter where
or. how, which menaces the peace
of the world, or the economic sta
bility, concerns each and all of us
That roughly may be said t.
be the central theme of the United
Nations 1t is with that though
we begin consideration of the mos
important subject that can engage
mankind-life itself.
Let there be no quibbling abou
the duty and the responsibility O
this group and of the government
we represent. was moved, In tn
afternoon of my life. to add m,
effort to gain the worlds quest, b,
the broad mandate under which WI
were created. The resolution of tn
General Assembly, passed Januar,
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