Evening star., 1950-08-20
Would ExpeI Soviets
From United Nations
Further DeIoy in Drastic
Action Called Futile
By Fronk r. Kent

BY Fronk K. Kent
In the past three weeks the extraor.
dinary conduct Of Jacob Malik. So
Wet representative at the United Nations
Security Council, has had one certain
effect. A few months ago Herbert
Hoover suggested that the only way to
save the United Nations from completely
farcical futility was to reorganize. leav-
ing Russia and her subServient satel-
htes out. A good many then thought that
was too drastic step. Now, q consid-
cradle number have changed their
minds.
Before the Korean invasion (when
the Hoover suggestion was made) as a
result Of constant and prolonged Rus
sian recalcitrancy the United Nations
was in state of almost suspended ami
nation, unable. because Of the veto, to
take any constructive step toward the
great goal of permanent peace. Every
body agreed this was true. The whole
mont Communist world resented it. How
ever, various arguments from those who
should have known better were made.
We must keep Russia in because she
might have change Of heart. To throw
her out would make 1t more difficult to
negotiate. To provoke her might precipi-
tate the final catastrophe of a general
war. It will not do to isolate her. For
the sake Of its noble aims the United
Nations must be kept intact. ETC.. etc.
Well, look at it now! It's position Is
pitiful and ridiculous. 1t mortifies and
angers the representatives of the free
nations of the world. It irritates and
battles the people as whole. 1t Is
impossible to take 1t seriously. The
pious hopes so often enunciated have
been obviously hollow ever since. four
years ago. the Soviets first revealed the
fact they were not there to negotiate or
agree on anything-rather the reverse.
Today, Of course. these hopes sound
simply silly. Today the United Nations.
whose basic purpose is to outlaw war
and crush aggression, is rendered static
by nation the basic purpose Of which
is just the opposite, which. in defiance
Of the charter, probably has inspired
war in Korea and whose long list Of
aggressions is documented and unde-
niable.
For three weeks its Security Council
has been humilitatingly compelled to
listen to the violent TRADES Of the repre-
sentative of this nation, Mr.. Malik.
whose offensive, insulting and menda-
cious language has not been equalled in
any parliamentary body at any time.
For three weeks, as someone recently
said, this man has vehemently insisted
that war is peace, that self-defenSe Is
aggression, that night Is day and black
is white" This insult to the intelligence
by presumably intelligent man has
been an amazing spectacle.
There is ample evidence in possession
Of the United Nations to convict the
Soviets Of instigating war and planning
aggression. Upon this evidence 1t could
be expelled and it's ability to Illustrate.
stultify and nullify ended. No informed
man can possibly entertain today any
doubt that the Russian purpose is not
international cooperation and peace
but the conquest Of the world. the domi-
nation and destruction Of every nom
Communist country.
We are spending hundred million
of dollars telling the rest of the world
of the evil nature of the Russian pur-
pose and the vicious character of her
propaganda. We appropriate billions Of
dollars to arm ourselves against the
Third World War we believe she plans.
We proclaim in Senate speeches, news
paper editorials and radio pronounce
ments that, because of this nation we
are today in greater peril than ever we
have been before. Because Of her we are
about to impose tremendously increased
taxes upon our people and add dam
gerously to the national debt. Under
the circumstances and considering our
experience of the past five years. 1t
seems worse than folly to permit this
nation to remain in the United Nations.
to whose purpose 1t is utterly opposed
and which it deliberately prevents from
functioning.
What sense does it make to keep
playing this game? Is there anything to
be gained by further appeasement and
tolerance? What additional risk will be
incurred by firm action to end an intol-
cradle state of affairs? The longer We
wait the harder it is going to be to get
off the hook-the more opportunities
for the Soviets to use the United Nations
to further their plans and thwart the
desire for peace in the hearts Of people
everywhere. Clearly they do not fit into
the family of nations. Clearly they ought
to be barred until they become so. 1t
is foolish to falter At least the coarse
and contemptuous Mr.. Malik has made
all this little palmer.