Evening star., 1960-09-24
The Crisis-Moker

1t is obvious that Nikita Khru-
Shchev is not really interested in accept
ing President EiSenhower'S invitation
and challenge to join in great new
effort to abate the cold war and promote
progress toward decent and enduring
peace. Instead, he appears to be inter
eSted solely and simply in mouthing
poisonous propaganda and keeping the
international pot aboil, in a way calcu-
lated to help the Kremlin in its drive
for global domination.
II this were not so, If the Soviet
Premier had the slightest desire to CO.
operate in building a better and safer
world, he would not have spoken as he
has to the United Nations General AS
Sembly. For his inordinately long and
tiresomely hackneyed speech to that
body can be described only as a repug-
nant collection of half-truths, distor-
tionS, Misrepresentation and downright
lieS-an utterly dishonest and intemper-
ate 18,000-word melange in which one
searches in vain for evidence of good
faith or genuine wish to ease tension
and advance the cause of peace.
This latest display of Soviet artistry
in the technique of the Big Lie is well
exemplihed by Mr.. Khrushchev'S ha-
rangue on "colonialiSm." 1t is sheer pro-
pagandiStic balderdash designed to win
friends and influence people among the
emerging African states, and it is
trebly obnoxious and hypocritical in
view of how the Super-imperialiStic
USSR has made captives of Hungary and
nearly dozen other once-independent
lands. Similarly, he has further set
back peace-promoting efforts by offering
nothing but rehaSh of old disarma-
ment proposals which have long since
been rejected because they rule out an
effective system of controls and inSpec-
ton.
But worse than anything else in the
Khrushchev address is his diatribe re-
garding the Congo and the U. MS opera
tionS there under the direction of Sec
retary General Dag Hammarskjold.
Within only few days after the Assem-
bly'S 70-to-0' emergency vote firmly
supporting not only those operations but
Mr.. Hammarskjold as well, the Soviet
Premier has had the brashneSS to con-
demn that vote, call for its reversal and
demand that the United Nations forth
with make revolutionary change in its
Charter by abolishing the Secretary
Generals Office and replacing it with a
Soviet-neutralist-W triumvirate
And he has contemptuously proposed
also that headquarters be moved from
New York to Switzerland, Austria or
perhaps even the USSR.
! In effect, as Secretary Herter has
declared, Mr.. Khrushchev thus has
launched IAN all-out attack-a real dec
laration of war-against the structure,
personnel and location of the United
Nations" and this in turn has created
crisis for the 18th session of the Cen
eral Assembly. Accordingly, speaking
through Ambassador WadSworth, the
United States has done we'll in urging
the Assembly to meet the challenge
head-on with action of a sort that would
amount to a strong vote of confidence
In Mr.. Hammarskjold and the U. MS
work in the Congo.
This is as it should be- Clearly,
judging from what he has done there
so far, the Soviet Premier has gone to
the Assembly in New York not as a
peace-maker, but as a crisis-maker. AS
an Indian delegate has observed, Mr..
Eisenhower has sought to keep the door
open for fruitful negotiations, but Mr..
K. has chosen to slam it shut. The U. N.
ought therefore to rebuke him in a
manner as nearly unanimous as possible.