Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-05-19
BY WILLIAM r. KNOWLAND
Senator from California

Senator from California
After experiencing four decades
Of international communism, men
still ponder the question Of final
agreement with Moscow to settle
and stabilize world peace.
With Soviet military potential
implicated in the recent uprisings
in Hungary and the explosive
Middle East situation, the danger
OF challenging communism bellig-
erent activities has revived the eff
forts of those who seek a peaceful
coexistence with Soviet Russia.
II 1t Is true, as most military
strategists advise, that the power
OF nuclear warfare destruction has
made improbable rash military
action. in my judgment it has also
created a new status of wishful
dreaming that could. If unchecked,
lead the free world into q zone
Of mortal danger.
Responsibility for a world of
peace based on the fundamental
rights of mankind must always
rest with those countries where
basic rights are honored and pro-
tected. This obligation Of the free
world extends not only to the re-
naming areas not Under Commu-
mist domination but also to the
millions OF enslaved inhabitants
who exist In those Soviet satellite
areas from China to Latvia.
Indirectly, since the October
Revolution in 1917. and more di.
rectly since the end of World War
II. the Soviet conspiracy has
moved forward by subverting. in
vading. twisting and zig-zagging
toward its never forgotten goal of
world domination by communism.
Like fostering, untreated sore. all
: attempts to ignore its existence
nave produced sickness in mankind
which seems no longer subject to
ordinary methods Of treatment.
The answering men in the
kremlin have always known that
the West stood ready to bargain
for terms for peace whenever a
change in Communist methods
called for a Soviet proposal to ere.
new negotiations" This fact stands
as an incontrovertible answer TO
those well-intentioned but mis-
guided peace-makers who con-
stantly cry for flexible" position
viS-a-vis communism.
0ools Remoin the Some
1t is clear to me-and all expert
testimony seems to reach the same
conclusion-that the goals and the
tactics OF communism's objective of
world domination remain constant
and practicable. II this be true,
prudent and responsible govern
ment requires that communism's
past and present record Of inter-
national conduct must guide the
free worlds Judgment in seeking a
f1nal agreement with the Soviet
Union.
In my Judgment. the free world
would strengthen and insure its
own moral position not by seeking
further understandings and agree
ments with Moscow, but by devot-
ing its efforts TO requiring Soviet
compliance with the ones she has
already made-and broken.
For example. the Soviet Union
was obligated to withdraw troops
from Hungary and Romania once
peace treaty was signed with
Austria. This solemn pledge was
renowned by the simple expedient
OF negotiating q new treaty with
the puppet governments In those
two countries that called for the
continued presence OF Soviet troops.
During the l2-year existence
Of the United Nations. the basic
provisions Of its charter have been
ignored or thwarted time and again
by the Soviet Union. The funda-
mental purposes of this institution
subscribed TO by all its members
are the establishment Of interna-
tional peace and security and re-
spectful attention to the principle
Of equal rights and elf-determina-
ton Of all peoples.
In the Security Council Of the
United Nations the veto power has
been used So times-the Soviet
Union-7a times; France; Great
Britain-2; China-l; the United
States-0.
Was the veto intended 10 permit
q permanent member to invalidate
It's obligations under the Charter?
! think not.
Is there either logic or morality
In assuming that the Charter obli-
cations are binding or can be en-
forced upon the law-abiding or the
small nations but are invalid against
a lawless nation with veto? Such
a condition cannot long be accep-
table to free men interested in .
peaceful world.
It seems to me the United Ma
tions cannot take a moral leader
ship in the world unless the Soviet
Unions veto can be limited to those
matters which impinge on Its
sovereignty and not those where
she is violating the sovereignty Of
others. And all other nations. in
GLIDING the United States. should be
willing to submit to this restriction.
At this time the Western world
retains a margin Of power which
has been the only deterrent TO ad-
ditional aggressive designs on the
mort ~ tia G0t,iak TIni0va entft
In the balance from the non-C Com
munist to the ro-Communist bloc
is a mortal danger for which re-
sponsible ofiicials cannot assume the
risks. 1t is always a temptation Ia
accept gestures Of friendship from