The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1956-12-28

"onesided' criticism of one ma
ton by another. Sentiment can
never be guide to sound action
much less "the sentiments of yes
terday and the day before" he,
warned.
In a thoroughly clear refer
ence 10 the Soviet massacre of
fhe Hungarian people. His Holi.
ness said There's no longer
room for doubt concerning the
aims and methods which rely
on tanks when these latter nois
lily crash over borders, sowing
death in order TO force civilian
peoples into a pattern of life
they explicitly detest
The Holy Father expressed his
consolation in seeing that lin
some countries amid .todays de-
bates men are talking about con
science and its demands" They
haven't forgotten, he said that
only absolute norms and an alb
solute end save social life from
chaos" He added: They explicit
ly condemn those WhU believe
they can resolve questions of hui
man coexistence on the basis of
good external appearances and
with a practical view, aiming TO
act according TO where interest
and power may be found in in
dividual cases"
In this context, the Pope said
the United Nations, despite its
high aims, has recently been the
victim of the false realism" of
mot a few of its members" even
when the United Nations aims
al d values are at stake.
mo one expects or demands
the impossible, not even from
the United Nations" he said,
but one should have right
TO expect that their authority
should have had its weight, al
least through observers, in the
places in which the essential
values OF man are in extreme
danger.
Although the United Nations
condemnation of the grave vio-
lafions of the rights OF men and
OF entire nations Is worthy of
recognition, one can neVerthe
less wish that, in similar cases,
the exercise Of their rights as
members of this organization
be denied TO states which re-
fuse even the admission of OBJ
servers - thus showing that
their concept Of state sovereign
~ threatens the very founaa.
T. tions OF the United Nations.
This organization ought also
to have the right and the power
of forestalling all military inter
vention of one state in another,
whatever be the preteXt under
which it is effected, and also the
right and power Of assuming by
means of sufficient police force,
the safeguarding Of order in the
state which is threatened"
In strong defense of the
United Nations as such, however,
Pope Plus said; IF We allude to
these defects, il is because We
desire TO see strengthened the au!
thority of the United Nations es-
pectally for effecting general dis.
armament which we have so much
at heart In fact, only in the
ambit OF an institution like the
United Nations can the promise
of individual nations to reduce
armament. especially to abandon
production and use of certain
arms, be mutually exchanger un-
der the strict obligation of inter
national law
Likewise only the United Ma
tons is at present in a position
TO exact the observance of this
obligation by assuming effective
control of the ornaments of all
nations without exception It's
exercise of aerial observation will
assure certain and effective
knowledge of the production of
military preparedness for war
with relative ease, while avoiding
the disadvantages which the pres
ence OF foreign troops In coun.
try can give rise to-