Evening star., 1953-03-21
The Political Mill
U. N. Seems Destined
To Stoy Just a Dream
Disarmament PorIeys
Block Forums Progress
By GouId Lincoln

NEW YORK.-n anything more were
needed to impress upon the world the
impasSe which has arisen between the
Western world and Soviet Russia the
debate which has been going on in the
United Nations Political and Security
Committee on the disarmament prob
lem provides the additional proof.
This question of arms reduction, indeed,
has been the rock upon which efforts
in the United Nations, looking to col
lective security, have foundered ever
since the U. N. set out doing business
The Russians, then as now, showed
themselves unwilling to meet the non-
Communist nations halfway.
The nub of any real disarmament
agreement rests in establishment of real
and regular inspections--by the U. N
OF armamentS and arms production in
all member nations. The Russians have,
indeed, offered disarmament plan of
their own, including inspections
Hidden in their proposal, however, is
a determination that these inspections
shall not interfere with domestic man
agement. In other words-so far as
Russia is concerned-the u. N. inspec-
tors would be carted around on tours
arranged by the Soviet government and
not permitted to look around for them
selves. The Russians would let them
see only as much as the Russians de-
sired them to see.
"OutIawing" A-Weapons.
The Russian proposal too, calls for
the outlawing of atomic weapons and
the use of atomic missiles. Again and
oOoin II hoe honVN kx,
can and British spokesmen that they
are not willing to agree to give up
atomic weapons and to destroy stock
piles of atomic bombs without adequate
assurance that Russia is giving up all
such. weapons and the effort to pro-
duce them. That assurance, they con-
tend, can only be had by free
inspection by U. N. representatives at
any time.
To the U. NJ visitor today, the dis
cusSion of disarmament has all the
earmarks of a twice-told tale. It seems
to be getting nowhere. The arguments
do not vary-except from time to time
they fall from different lips. But be-
cause disarmament is at the very root
OF world peace, the problem is not
allowed to die. Some day, perhaps,
formula may be agreed upon.
To the U. N. visitor it is apparent
that unless some new spirit of CO.
operation enters the picture, the great
dream OF collective security and peace
for the world in which the United
Nations was conceived will remain a
dream. Instead of functioning organi-
zation for peace, we find today a
reverSion to the old balance of power
among the nations, with war a pros
pect when and if one side believes it
is strong enough to challenge and
upset the balance. On the one hand
stand the United States, Britain,
France and the other free" (non-
Communist) nations. On the other,
Communist Russia and her satellites.
including Red China.
Two New Administrations.
1t is with tremendous interest, there
fore, that the representatives of many
nations here listen to or read state
mentS made by two new leaders, repre-
Sentlng two new administrations, in
the two greatest powers of today's
world: President Eisenhower of the
United States and Premier Malenkov
OF the Soviet Union. For years they
have heard peace talk by the late
Premier Stain. It has been dinned
into their ears while Russia plowed
ahead with its arms build-up-and it's
determined infiltration and revolution
ary movement in other countries. It
has made them cynical.
Today, for Russia and the United
States. the governmental picture is
changed. Certainly the personalities
involved are different. No one, prob
ably not even the Russians, doubts the
sincerity of President Eisenhower
when he says he wants above all peace
. for the world-and not world domi-
mated by the United States. The
optimists are looking to Malenkov to
make good and to prove that he, too.
desires peace without territorial con-
quest. They are hoping at least that
Russia and Malenkov will give suf-
ficient assurance to make conversations
between the Russian Premier and the
American President worth undertak-
ing.
In the meantime; representatives of
so nations continued to meet mere on
the banks of the East River, in the most
remarkable and beautiful setting ever
designed particularly for international
effort-the new home of the u. N.