Evening star., 1950-07-08
United Nations Begins
Real Existence Under
Proddings Of Russia
Designed to Keep Peace,
1t Was Homstrung by
Series of Red Vetoes
Bp Dorothy Thomhson

on China that would bring Russia
back to her seat in the Security
Council. He predicted that other
wise the United Nations would
perish.
Actually. it was Russian absten-
ton which saved the United Ma
tions. The whole purpose and
spirit of the U. N. was being dis
sipated by a succession of Soviet
vetoes and sulks. Designed to pre-
serve peace by creating a solid
front against aggression, it was
hamstrung by the vetoes of ag-
gressors. Designed in recoil from
Nazi crimes against humanity to
prevent their repetition, it was
rendered a mockery by the pres
ence on the august Security Coun-
Gil of a state and it's satellites
every one of them forced into line
under quislings by force or the
threat of force-who have per-
sistently committed all the Nazi
crimes but one.
The Soviet and Communist re-
gimeS have never exterminated
Jews, as such, nor practiced geno-
eide, as such. But under the claim
OF protecting peoples democra-
cies" from "class enemies" they
have decimated the populations
Of the Baltic states, deported peo-
pie by the millions, established
slave-labor Corrective" camps,
sent men to the gallows or the
firing squad from lynch courts, re-
organized East German youth into
repetitions of Hitler's indoctri-
mated infant hordes, and distin-
guished between neither Jew nor
gentle, workman nor nobleman.
in their universal terror. mis-
named revolution.
Terrorism Over World.
They declared a cold war" and
labeled it resistance to warmon-
gers" They modified Soviet par
tisans into armies in every country
weak enough to tolerate them.
They launched civil wars under
a universal strategic plan as "spon-
taneous popular revolts." They
perpetually advocated "outlawing
the atomic bomb under strict in
ternational controls" and vetoed
every proposal that would have
accomplished this. They. cried for
strengthening the United Ma
tions" while doing everything to
render the United Nations impo-
tent. And finally their leader and
master walked out until he could
get his. own way on seating the
Communist government Of China,
declaring. at the same time. that
with Russia and Communist
China In absentia, the whole
structure was illegal and had, In
fact and pro tenn, ceased to exist.
Then they launched the inva-
sion of South Korea.
Then, for the first time, the
United Nations began to exist, be-
cause at long last the conscience of
the world could function. That
conscience - wherever conscience
is permitted existence-had al
ready branded aggression as a
crime, had already recommended
sanctions and, as a last resort,
united police action against ag-
gressors. The Charter was, and
still is. too weak and too vague.
1t needs strengthening by clear
definitions. It has never satisfac-
torily. or on paper, created a law,
a judge. or policeman, without
which no international body
pledged to protect the peace of the
weak as well as the strong can sue
cessfully function.
1t could not create them for the
simple, ineluctable reason that
one powerful member was intent tc
live above any law but its own; to
be the judge Of the acts Of all but
accept the Judgment Of none; and
to police the world only for its
own ends, and by its own terrorist
means.
Suddenly There Was Law.
But with Russia sulking In her
tents and absent from her seat
OF eternal negation, suddenly there
was a law-for it was present in
every ones mind; there was a
judge-the judgment of mankind: ::
and there was even Russia's own
oft repeated principle of una
nimity." Nothing moved me more
than when India. great lover of
peace and perhaps most truly so of
all, stood with Pakistan to ap-
prove the course that Communist
aggression had finally compelled
the rest of the world to take.
What has occurred is not an al
lance OF states in any previously
conceived terms. What has oc-
CURED is the will of weak and
strong together to affirm that ag-
gression cannot continue to occur
with inpunity.
God grant that this shall be
demonstrated in single place
and once and for all. But let us
demonstrate it in every possible
visual and oral way. That the
forces Of the United States, Brit
ain, the Netherlands, Australia
Canada, China, New Zealand
France, and Latin America should
carry the United Nations fiae
along with their own is capital.
And, at the same time, let all
the voices that encircle the globe
by air. speak as one voice, whether
they speak from London or Delhi
from Pakistan or Paris. Let us have
no more Voice of America" but
"the voice of freedom and security
under the United Nations.
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Koreo War Increases