The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1961-09-15
Our opinion
EDITORIALS


Only a confirmed woman-hater or an envlous
female would be averse to watching the pretty young
Contestants in the Miss America Pageant televiSed last
Saturday evening for two and one-half hours.
BUT WE WOULD LIKE to suggest that millions
of viewers would have done better to have spent the
first hour watching "IHe Nations Future" another
channel. which dealt with the admission Of Red China
to the U.N, rather than the promenade and sorority
stunt night engaged in by the beauty contestants.
Those who missed the debate may say they know
Red China should not be admitted, but we wager that
most viewers in this category are guilty Of the KIND
of unlntelligent antiCommunism we have deplored in
/. these pages.
THE DEBATE SET FORTH in clear terms the
crux of the question with the U.N!AAmbassador from
India, Chandra S. Jha, speaking for Red China's adj
mission and Sen. Paul II. Douglas taking the negative
side. r.
Ambassador Jha in dispassonate terms stated that
China is already a member of the U.N. The question
is which government shall represent her? The govern
ment on Formosa with 10 million adherentS or the
Peiping government which controls $40 million Chi
nese? He pointed out that we need not approve of
governments with whom we deal, and that many states
have different kinds of government from that which
they possessed when they joined the United Nations.
He asked for a hearing for the Red Chinese on the
grounds that if we exclude them from our councils we
can never negotiate with them on world peace and nu-
clear disarmament, nor can we convert them from
military opposition. He asked how we can pretend to
solve the problems of the world when we will not
negotiate win those representing oneflfth OF us popu-
lation?
SENATOR DOUGLAS, DESPITE some personal
and national references which married his presenta-
ton, replied very well when he stated that the Red
Chinese governments fails to meet the basic standards
of admission which are required by the UN Charter,
lie. that the member nation be peace loving and that
it meet its obligation in fulfilling that intention.
He pointed out that Red China's long record of
aggression against individual peoples and the I'm. it.
self and declared that its admission would wreck the
United Nations organization and represent a psy-
Geological defeat for those who prize freedom, because
1t would involve expulsion of the delegates Of the Re-
public Of China now centered in Formosa.
More important, he showed that a completely
Communist regime will not be converted from its
avowed purpose of destroying the democracies, be-
cause It is dedicated to that goal by tsVefy philosophy.
THE ILLINOIS SENATOR said that a Red Chinese
delegation would aid and abet the attacks carried out
by the Soviet bloc which have disrupted much of the
work of the UN.
This question is currently important with the new
session Of the U.N. at hand and the resolution passed
last week in Belgrade where the "non-aligned" ma
tons asked for admission of Red China to the world
body.
Again, we're not opposed 10 light entertainment,
We just feel that the nations future in the U.N is
more important than the didoes of the nations Miss
Amerlca.-GAF