Evening star., 1952-10-18
The Test of Staying Power

As If inviting Soviet Foreign Minister
Vishinsky to do likewise in an effort to promote
some easing of international tensions. Secretary
Of State Acheson has addressed the United
Nations General Assembly in accents of studied
moderation. Despite the relative softness of
his language, however, he has made clear that
American policy-regardless of what the Rus
sian response may bel whether conciliatory or
typically vttriolic- no wavering on
fundamental issues involving principles of right
and wrong.
These issues are made up of three major
groups of world problems-the problems Of
economic development, the problems of depend
ent peoples seeking self-government, and the
problems of establishing collective security
against aggression. At the moment, of course,
the biggest and most critical question of all
is Korea, and in connection with 1t Mr.. AcheSon
even though speaking more or less softly
has been particularly emphatic in warning Of
the imperative need for an 4unyiefding deter
mination to maintain the rule of law against
the lawless lest the free nations, by failing to
hold fast together, become easy targets for
conquest one by one.
m In giving voice to this warning, Mr.. Acheson
has been at pains to undersccre the fact. that
1t applies not only to the United. States.sapd
the limited number of~otI1er countries hghting
the aggressor in Korea, but also to "every ma
ton and every individual who values freedom"
This is so because the war there constitutes
supreme trial for the whole structure of col
lective security envisioned in the United Ma
tions The Communist enemy has been beaten
back beyond the line of his original attack, but
he continues to reject reasonable armistice
terms and he does so because he still counts
forvictory upon those of faint heart who would
grow weary of the struggle" Hence, in Mr..
Achesons words, the U. N. now faces one Of
its most crucial testS-"the test of staying
power"-and 1t must win it, as it can, or suffer
a defeat full Of potential catastrophe for all
mankind.
How protracted must this test be? Mr..
Acheson has not tried to guess He has merely
warned, with grimness that the United States
and its United Nations allies can afford to give
only one answer-namely, that 1--WE shall fight
on as long as is necessary to stop the aggres-
sion and to restore peace and security to Korea"
Accordingly, while stressing the U. MS constant
readiness to negotiate just truce he has
served notice that our Government, If the Com
munists keep on rejecting such truce, will
call upon members Of the General Assembly
to demonstrate to the aggressor that they are
still overwhelmingly united against him and in
E full support, of action designed to convince him
that continued fighting will cost him more
than he can gain.
Speaking through Foreign Minister Vishin-
sky, the Communists may have nothing but
virulence to offer in reply to Mr.. Acheson's
moderate but firm words. Even so, II the vast
majority of the u. N shows that it is as one
with the United States in meeting "the test
of staying power" in Korea-and in building up
the common armed defenses of free men else
where IN the world-the Kremlin conceivaby
may find it prudent to persuade Pyongyang
and Peiping to break the deadlock at Pan
munjom. In that case substantial progress
could be made at last toward reducing the
. present danger of another global war.
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