Evening star., 1950-07-02
Most of the World Is With Us

If anything can be said to be heartening IN
connection with the grimly disheartening Asiatic
crisis, it is the way in which the countries OF
the non-Soviet world-the overwhelming majority
of the United Nations-haye rallied behind the
Security Councils resolutions for military action
to put an end to the criminal war OF aggression
unleashed against Southern Korea by the Kren-
Inns puppet regime in the north.
The United States, because of Its unique
position in the situation-its position In terms
of geographical propinquty, available power and
special moral and legal responsibility acting
as the chief executor of the Councils orders IN
intervening directly with its air, sea and ground
forces However, although no other outside
power has as yet moved into Southern Korea
to fight shoulder to shoulder with us In an
effort to repel the Communist invaders, our coun-
try is anything but alone in undertaking this
hard and fateful task to hold the line against
Red aggression
Thus, In keeping with the decisions of the
Security Council, Great Britain-which Incl
dentally for the past two years has had $1,000
troops in action against the Communists in
Malaya-has lost no time in placing its Pacific
fleet at the disposal of General Macarthur II he
wishes to use 1t. Australia and Canada have
offered the same sort Of support, as have New
Zealand and The Netherlands. Similarly, wholly
apart from France-which has invested heavy
forces in an effort to hold the line in Indo-
China-such other countries as Belgium Nation
aliSt China (Formosa) and the twenty West
ern Hemisphere members OF the Organization of
American States have notified the U. N. of their
readiness to do everything they can to back us
up in carrying out the Councils orders.
Not less signifcant-indeed, in some ways
even more significant-is the position taken by
India. On June ~, when the Security Council
called upon all members of the U. N. to CO.
operate militarily in helping to save Southern
Korea, the Indian delegate, after unsuccessfully
trying to get instructions from home, failed to
vote-a failure rejecting indecision on the part
OF Prime Minister Nehrus government. Since
then, however that government-though still
emphasizing its earnest desire to maintain a
policy of strict neutrality as between Soviet Rus
sia and the United States-has grasped the nettle
and proclaimed its support of the Councils his
tory-making action, and implicitly OF our inter-
vention,, against the naked aggression of the
Northern Korean Reds. .s~.1 #
This development. coupled with the an
nouncement that Pakistan also stands firmly
behind the Councils orders, is bound to have q
wholesome influence. For India, with its new
independence under the Nehru government,
occupies place of prime leadership In the seeth-
ing political life of Southeast Asia. Ever since
1t came into being as sovereign nation few
years ago, it has been kind of spokesman for
that whole crucial region against all forms of
imperialism British, American, Russian or any
kind. Accordingly linked with Pakistans action,
the position 1t has taken against the Reds in
Korea can hardly fail to have a profoundly i'm
pressive effect on Asiatic opinion in general
Actually as matters stand today, it is clear
that If the full General Assembly of the United
Nations were able to convene in an emergency
special session. only the Soviet bloc plus perhaps
few of its nervous neighbors like Yugoslavia
would vote against the Councils Korean resolu-
tions and our American action to effectuate those
resolutions. What this means-and it is highly
slgnihcant-is that most of the world stands
behind us in what we are doing. Very definitely
In both a moral and material sense. the over
whelming mass of mankind is with us.
OF course 1t would be dangerously wishful to
assume from all this that the men of the Kremlin
and their satellites, seeing the world thus lined
up against them, will pull in their horns and
change their behavior for the better. Neyerthe
less, though they may prove to be tough and reck
less to the point of precipitatng another terrible
war, they can hardly welcome the prospect OF
racing the massed angered opposition of most of.
humanity Conceivably, it is prospect suff1ci-
entity SOLDERING to keep them from making the
kind OF moves that could lead now to a global
explosion.