Evening star., 1950-12-30

ferent races, creedS and cOlOrS a
new relationship of partnership
and of equality.
8. Since the end of World War
II we have provided, in loans and
grants, over $40 billion for the re-
lief of other people and the re-
construction of other lands, there
by practicing the great command
ment that the strong ought to
bear the infirmities of the weak.
4. We took the lead in founding
the United Nations as an organiza-
ton for recording the moral judg-
ments of the world and developing
ways to put power behind those
judgments so as to promote COL
lective justice and security. This
year. for the first time in all the
annals of history, a world organi-
zation moved with force to halt
aggression and whether 'or not
that effort succeeds in Korea, the
United Nations has revealed pos
sibilities which will inspire further
effort. Already, at this 1850 ses-
sion, the United Nations General
Assembly asked all the member
nations to maintain armed forces
which could serve as United Ma
tions units and it adopted new
procedures so that these contin-
gents could be called into service
without the paralysis of veto.
A world organization moved
with force to halt aggression. II
seemed that the hope of ages
had come true Whatever now
may be the, disappointments, we
can know that the sons of the
United Nations who in Korea lay
down their lives do so for the
noblest cause for which men ever
died in battle, They have done
the indispensable by showing that
world order is a practicable pos
sibility. Nothing now can stop
the determination of the people
to achieve solidly that goal.
Need for Constructive Criticism.
Now, do not claim for a mo-
ment what our Nation has done
in these respects has been per-
fectly done. Our own social
changes may have gone so far as
unduly to curtail incentive and
self-reliance. In some cases. politi-
cal independence may have been
given to peoples who are so in
experienced in the ways of self
government that it will be hard
for them to preserve that indie
pendence in the face of the dia-
bolically clever apparatus of Soviet
Communism. Our loans and
grants to others may sometimes
have provided temporary relief
rather than incentives to bold new
creations of unity and strength.
Both the United States and the
United Nations may have assumed
political responsibilities which they
did not yet have the power to
back up. Policies, themselves
good. often lacked efficient and
timely execution. There have been
grave and perhaps unnecessary
set-backs. Almost surely the free
world erred in relying too much
on pontential power. and in not
creating enough military strength
in being.
There is no occasion for COM
placency or for whitewash. There
is need to expose errors and to
point the way to making better
use Of all the moral and material
assets that our people have shown
they could provide. Such con-
structive pressures are needed and
I have been among those who
sought to create them. Under our
political system that is a special
responsibility of the opposition
party.
But surmounting whatever may
have been the faults and made
quacies of leadership, the deeds
of our people over the past five
years emerge as a testimonial to
greatness and to achievement.
The "COld War" Thwarted.
A year ago. on January l, 1850,
Izvestia's leading editorial well
coined the New Year with these
words:
Around the U. $. S. r. the
camp of the fighters for peace,
democracy and socialism is grow
ing and becoming stronger.
THE forces of this camp are
multiplying day by day. The
camp of democracy and social
ism today includes the great So
Wet Union. democratic Poland.
Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Ru-
mania, Hungary. Albania, North
ern Korea, the Mongol Peoples
Republic, the Chinese Peoples Re-
public. the German Democratic
Republic.
And the editorial concluded:
Communism is conquering,
Communism will Triumph"
l do not know what Izvestia
will say next Monday in greeting
to 1851. 1 do know that, whereas
between 1945 and 1850 it was
boasting new conquests at the
average rate of over two nations
a year, there are, this year, no
new names of which to boast.
That means that the free world
has found the way to slow down
Soviet Communist expansion by
methods short of open war. That
is no mean accomplishment.
Communism pitted its youth
against what it thought was our
decreptitude; its universal creed
against what it thought was our
iSolationism: it's revolutionary
practices against what it thought
was our static mood. 1t found,
to it's dismay, people who, when
under pressure, did not decom-
pose into factionalism and frus-
tration. Unitedly, and with un-
partisan and bipartisan leader
ship, they joined in an outpour-