Evening star., 1950-12-02
The Free Must Stay United

1t will be good thing if British Prime
Minister Attlee's impending meeting with Presi-
dent Truman can be enlarged to include French
Premier Rene Pleven For the time is here
urgently here, when the allies of the free world
led primarily by France, Britain and the United
StateS-must do everything possible to weld
themselves together into an unbreakable common
front against the great common menace row
confronting them.
Certainly, with Red China engaged in an
act of massive aggression against the United
Nations, and with the Kremlin vetoing relatively
mild and definitely conciliatory Security Council
resolution to the deadly international crisis
caused by that aggression, there seems little or
no ground left for the WiShful thought that mere
political negotiation can lead to an honorable
settlement. In the circumstances, it is impera-
tive for the non-Sovet world-which means the
overwhelming majority of the U. N.-to make
emphatically clear in the General Assembly that
it stands as one, firmly and resolutely, against
the black and coldly calculated crime of the
Chinese Communists and their Moscow mentors
Whether or not the French Premier takes
part in it, the AttleeTruman meeting will cover
issues affecting the unity and safety of all peoples
and governments in the free world-in Europe
and Asia The use of atomic weapons in case of
necessity; the principles and methods to be
followed in seeking to avoid general war if
it can be avoided agreement on joint political
and military strategy to cope with the immense
perils of our time; and the settlement of inter-
allied differences multitude of other queS-
tions, including West German rearmament and
the organization of an effective unified defensive
force for the Atlantic community-these are
some of the major matters that demand prompt
decisions. And nothing could be more important
than that the non-Soviet nations-France Brit
ain, the United States and all the rest-achieve
unanimity on them, unanimity that will not
be shaken by the worst threats of the Kremlin
and its satellites
Such unanimity-as indicated by reports
from abroad-seems endangered now by tend
ency to shrink away from the grim possibilities
inherent in what the Chinese Communists are
doing in Korea. Those possibilities add up to
nothing less than the specter of another world
war-a war with A-weapons. Needless to say,
with that kind of prospect thrust suddenly before
them, it is not unnatural that the initial re-
action of some political elements in many free
and peace-loving lands should be the nervous
one, If not the panicky one, of suggesting that
maybe it would be wise to beat swift retreat
from principle and placate the aggressor with
some sort of deal. But the folly of that is clear
Far from averting war, it would shatter our
allied 'front.' whet the Kremlins appetite for
oie oollqueSI' anu leave tile llo-ooFleV ldtloIS
in grave danger of being overwhelmed on a
piecemeal basis
1t is this danger-the danger of division and
disunity in the free world-that President Tru-
man, Prime Minister Attlee and all like-minded
leaders must fight against without letup Now
as never before, we and our allies must hold fast
together with an unwavering determination to
stand firm against the thing that threatens U.s.
Lacking such common front, then the United
States, refusing to be handicapped by the waver-
ers, must act on its own-alone If necessary
in doing whatever its survival may demand.