The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-04-24

the Senate win have Adopted thu
Bill providing military missions
for Turkey and Greece. finAncial
suppofS for the armies at Turkey
and Greece and economic re.
left for Greece. most Of il !
gift I voted for the Bill on final
passage. Il was . difficult de.
cisien for me 70 make because
believe very deeply that hy-pass.
ing sths United Nations n thi:
matter is a tragic mistake. Fo'
Us 70 begin for the first time 4
send military missions to foreign
countrieG outside this henis'
pheres and to finance foreign
armies with American money
and equip them with American
equipment Il q mistake from
which we will not soon rccov-
er. Instead Of giving greater as.
surahee of peace as. many Sena-
tors are publicly admitting, it en-
dangers war ~ the worst war Of
all time.
II havAsbeen among those SEN
ators who have fought to the very
utmost pEsNr strength to provide
aid to Greece, TO repair her war
damage and to rebuild her brok-
en- ecor$omy and to protect the
security Of Greece and Turkey
and allrothef countries. through
the United Nations. That was the
one great gain we got out Of the
war, save the destruction Of the
military power Of our enemies.
The United Nations was estab-
lished as, and is the only hope
on earth TO keep world peace. We
are not strong enough as an in
dividual nation to resist all ag-
gression, to prevent all war and
to keep the peace Of this earth.
But, as the leader of the United
Nations and with that organiza-
ton functioning as its Charter
contemplates and requires, I be-
lieve we can keep the peace OF
the world.
But the test of an organiza-
TONS strength ia whether it fune-
tions in crisis or not. #, when
the first crisis comes, those who
make it fup. abandon it and de-
clare that it can do nothing, Of
course, it has no strength. That
is what the big nations did to the
League Of Nations. And that pol
icy killed the League of Nations
and made inevitable World War
IL.
We stayed. out of the League
of Nations after World War l
and thereby helped to weaken
that organization so 1t could not
keep world peace. That failure
may have, cost US our sacrifices
in blood and treasure in World
War IL. Hut we learned our les
son. We saw our mistake. We
were converted to- collaboration
by baptism in the sacrifice OF
this war to the new function OF
working with other nations
toward keeping world peace.
Hence, through President Roose-
welt, we took the lead in setting
up the United Nations.
The United Nations today has a
membership OF over fifty nations.
It has been established here in
the United States. 1t is a fune-
tioning organization. A great
building is about to be construct
ed honorably to house it. It got
Russian troops out of Iran. It got
British and French troops out OF
Syria and Lebanon. It has set up
the World Bank, the World FOOD
Organization and the World
Health Organization. It establish
ed UNRRA to relieve the distress
Of the war slnitten pesl ss III
the world II has done ii retAafAl ID
able job III rs less than two
wears of existence. Now when
there is q border disturbance m
northern Greece and when Rus
STA has made some demands
about the Dardanelles to Turk
ey, we rush into unilateral
action. We start to send military
missions to Turkey and to Greece
to support Turkish and Greee
armies to protect the security OF
those nations. We did not even
notify the United Nations Organ
ization until sixteen days after
the President addressed the
Joint session of the Congress.
Now what some of US have
done in the Senate and the pres
sure that has come from the
country have been responsible
for a considerable modification
of the original proposal. We now
have agreed that the United Ma
tions can stop us by majority
vote. But when we joined the
United Nations, we and all other
nations agreed to act collectively
to preserve the peace OF the
world and to resist aggression
Going through the United Ma.