Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-11-06
Bernard Borueh Says:

tt0f3 dlSiDered by Mr.. B1rHch
mere put BY students, faculty
and members OF. the general
public.
@. Do you think that the West
ern Powers are correct in refusing
to accept Russian peace moves?
A. What are the Russian peace
moves? I would like to know. I
had o conversation recently with
Mr.. (Jacob) Malik when he and
Mr.. (AndreD Vishinsky got up and
walked out. I don't know what
their peace moves are. He asked
me one question: do you think
the appointment of Gen. Marshall
means o preventive WARP" I said,
I know that Gen. Marshall is a
man of peace, and war or peace
depends upon Russia. You can
have either one: we don't want
war. Well" he said, I'VE want
peace" Yes, said, but you want
peace In your interest, without
reference to the satellite countries
and to the strife of other peoples
I don't know exactly what the
peace moves are to which you re-
fer. Perhaps you are talking about
the atom bomb. They have been
making all kinds of suggestions
30 that we will say that we won't
use the atom bomb.
Q.-What do you believe are the
chances of the United States and
Russia coming to, as President)
Truman says, a "foolproof dis
armament agreement?
A.-Brethren and sistern, let us
all pray!
Gould Russia be trying to
undermine our economic stability
by a series of systematic military
1naneuvers such as the one in
Korea which caused a serious in
crease in our budget?
ACUTE possible! Undoubted-
~ we are facing two very great
problems. We have got to make
up for the lag in our preparedness
vis-a-vis Russia. I think we ought
to move very fast on that. Fur
thermore, I think we ought to
keep ourselves, (to) pace ourselves
vis-a-vis her, depending upon the
information we have as to what
her objects are; but we ought to
inform our associates in the
United Nations that they have
sot to do their share, because we
cannot do it all alone.
To do that Is going to require
the expenditure of large sums of
money. going to require a good
many restrictions on civilian uses
which for one reason or another
they do not seem willing to do
yet. And we have got to avoid
imitation. In the doing Of this, we
must avoid such an imitation as
now threatens to destroy us. We
have got to travel between these
two and 1t is going to require per-
haps - undoubtedly - some re-
stfietions upon civilian uses of
things which we can get along
without much better than we can
get along without our liberties.
We must avoid any physical de-
struction from without by armed
forces. must be ready to help our
associates; but we must also be
prepared not to have ourselves de-
stroyed by imitation.
@. Do you think that the veto
In the United Nations should be
abolished?
A. No. There may come a time
when this country may desire TO
put up veto because the major
ity Of the world may vote that
they want to do certain things
tso) that our whole life and his
tory and indeed the well-being of
humanity itself might be injured;
and we might have to use the
veto. because we might be quite
alone on the Big Five. I don't
think that we will ever use the
veto except justly, but I don't
want to give it up until see
some much better evidence of CO.
operation in the world, and where
We don't have to do most of the
cooperating.
Q. Do you agree with Mr..
eHefbert) Hoover on the armine
OF Western Europe and do YOU
think that it is feasible now?
A. Yes! But I think it has to
be done with wisdom and I am
willing to trust Gen. Marshall on
that point. I think he is a man
OF great wisdom, great under
standing, and I am willing to
follow him on military matters as
I have followed him ever since he
was q major.
Q. Do you think that the At
lantlc Pact is working?
A. Not yet, but I hope and pray
II Is on its way. If anybody can
do 1t Gen. Marshall can do it
But the Atlantic Pact isn't going
TO work If they expect us to do
all the pacting.
@. What would you say, Mr.
Baruch, is the most important
contribution we, as students. can
make toward eventual peace?
A. Well, I have very definite
ideas about that. If you learn to
discipline yourself, learn how to
think and learn the facts, and
then take real interest, do not
think that you're a zero, that you
don't count-that's defeatism-
and then no matter where you
are. no matter what your posi-
ton is, no matter how small you
may think it is, use your influence
not alone to learn the truth but
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