Evening star., 1950-09-19
The General Assembly

United Nations General Assembly faces an agenda
made up of more than 70 different items. These
items include all of the worlds most pressing
iSsues-old ones like the stalemate on inter-
national atomic control and relatively new ones
like the Korean war and the question of ad-
mitting Red China into the U. N. Taken as a
whole, they constitute set of problems whose
significance, complexity and inherent dangers
are greater and graver than anything of the
same sort in the past history of mankind.
The basic reason for this state of affairs
a situation which the world either must settle
peacefully or drift into war of unprecedented
cataStrophe-S that the Soviet Union with it's
handful of satellites, has refused to cooperate
in establishing a decent international order.
Instead in brazen violation of it's solemn OBJ
legations as signatory of the Charter of the
United Nations, it has deliberately and sys-
tematically followed a policy of direct and
indirect aggression, eliminating in its current
support of the criminal invasion unleashed last
June by its North Korean puppets.
No fewer than SO of the SO members of
the U. N. have taken their stand against that
policy but still the Kremlin adheres to it, using
the veto, vile propaganda, colossal lies, and
every form of parliamentary obStruc ctioniSm and
sabotage to prevent the overwhelming majority
from setting up system of genuine collective
security on global scale. Thus just as Jacob
Malik has done in the recent meetings of the
Security Council, Soviet Foreign Minister ViShin-
sky can be counted upon-barring an entirely
unexpected change in Moscows line-to try his
best to torpedo constructive action at the new
session of the General Assembly.
Nevertheless, even though its powers are
limited largely to holding debates, making rec
concentrations and appointing special commits
Sions, the Assembly is not at the mercy of vetoes
or fllibuSters, and it can therefore get on with
its work without fear of being stymed. Probably
its most important task in the weeks Immediately
ahead will center on Asia in general and Korea
in particular With our American and U. NJ
forces now striking in a way that promises to
hasten the collapse of the Red aggressors, a
sound plan must be drawn up for Korea's future
"a plan that ought certainly to do away with
the partition along the 38th Parallel and bring
into being free, unified country safe from being
dragged behind the Iron Curtain
The General Assembly has the capacity to
draft such plan and to place the moral pres
sure of most of the world behind it, Regardless
OF Russia'S veto in the Security Council, the
AssemblyS right to act in this field it's right
to condemn the crime of the puppet North
Koreans and recommend the restoration of an
independent non n-partitioned country, is right
that cannot be questioned. And if it is exercised
to the full, Mr. Vishinsky-no matter how much
he may rail against twill be hard put to
undermine its effectiveness in terms of its in
fuence on international opinion, particularly
opinion in Asia.
Moreover, the Assembly has good reason to
revamp its rules so as to enable it to convene
quickly in the event of some new aggression
elsewhere. Legal and moral moves against such
aggression can be blocked in the Security Coun-
Gil by the Soviet veto. But the Assembly's
situation is different. Since it is not subject
to that kind of paralysis, it ought to equip
itself to get together in hurry for emergencies
in which the Russians seek to tie the Councils
hands. Action of this sort, because it would
increase the efficiency of the U. N and perhaps
serve as another deterrent on the Kremlin, would
be gain for the hard-pressed forces of peace