Evening star., 1947-09-07
BY Siand Ame

State Department that Communists
had grabbed various other govern.
ments with a blithe disregard for the
wishes Of the majority.
u. 8. Fills Gap
The q. N. should have had the jot
Of stemming such grabs. In thu
Charter the IS member states pledge
themselves to the "self-determina'
ton Of peoples" The q. N. shoult
have been able to step in where the
majority thought grab was on.
But the U. N. had nothing to ster
Ia with. 1t should have had
world police force by now. The
Charter sets up such q force. But
the committee working on the plans
has met Russian objections at every
important turn. AS result the
q. N. has no teeth.
The United States stepped In with
the Truman doctrine-and with
American shipments Of guns and
training crews-to fill the gap left
by Q paralyzed U. N.
z. The Marshall plan.
This is still q foggy offer by the
United States to fill the cracks fol-
Is Western European nations as they
Try to rebuild to peacetime living.
Two years ago the U. N. pledged
Itself to promote higher living
standards, full employment and
conditions Of economic and social
progress"
Economic Group Blocked
The U. N. has a European Eco
nomic Commission (EEC) to do the
very Job which the offer of Amer
lean aid (the Marshall plan) now
proposes to do. But the EEC had
q difficult birth because of Russian
delegates who objected to the wishes
Of the majority, and 1t continues a
halt and limp life because Of Rus
sian objections.
So when Secretary of State Mar
shall proposed that the United
States help a Europe willing to help
itself, the European governments
acted as though there was no EEC
at all. They met at Paris on their
own. Their reconstruction plans
and the United States aid are being
built entirely outside the U. N.
8. The merger Of the American
and British zones In Germany.
This merger took place only after
the United States, Britain and
France could get no cooperation
out of the Russians in tying togeth-
Or the German economy 30 the Ger
mans of the west could sell their
manufactures for the food grown
BY the Eastern Germans under Rus
sian occupation.
Ihs occupation n not q. N. re-
vponsibility. It Is the Job OF the
Big Four. But the manner In which
khs Big Foxr's plans for Germany
hsvs tangled has badly slowed down
the u. N. plans for European re-
bovssy.
German coal, which always
pr.nsd the factories Of Europe. has
been slow to come out Of the ground.
II has cost United States and Brit
ish taxpayers many millions to feed
German miners who should have
been fed from the German grain
fields now under Russian occupa-
ton. :
Coal Mining Held Up
Al q result the United States and
Britain have Just finished talks to
step up German coal production on
their own.
There has been an abortive at
tempt by European governments to
speed up river trafhc. which carries
much industrial cargo. Again the
Russians slowed the work, and the
Job of getting European workers on
their feet was slowed in proportion.
Much of that river traff1c traverses
the Russian sector Of Germany,
Where Russia persits in keeping
hush-huSh.
4. The American loan to Britain.
This would have been made in any
case to get Americas best customer
back on its feet. Now the loan is
about gone and Britain is still ir
trouble. Hundreds of millions oi
those borrowed American dollars
were spent here and in Canada by
the British to feed Germans. Many
of those millions the British could
have kept for their own use could
the Germans In the British zone
have eaten the grain from the Rus
sian zone.
s. The Rio Conference Of the
Americas.
Here the nations of the Western
Hemisphere have decided to dc
what the unborn U. N. police force
was supposed to do. The Americas
have signed a paper which says IAN
attack on any one of us is an attack
on all of us, and we'll 60 to war to
stop the attacker."
This Rio pledge among the United
States and all the Latin American
nations would have been unneces-
sary II the U. N. police force had
eome into being. 1t hasn't. The
Western Hemisphere now has, alone,
lhe sort OF collective protection
promise which the world hoped 1t
kould get out Of the q. N.
Dtstszbuted hy ths Associated prsss)