Show vree lifeline oil UN world council will stand or fall on public opinion by BAUKHAGE news analyst and commentator here are some more notes from a re pOrt porters erps notebook of course reporters dont rea really y carry notebooks they write on whatever is handy this is a menu at the united nations some of the people who are reading this column attended sessions of the united nations I 1 think I 1 recognized some of you it was hard to get in because so many nations felt this session was so important that they brought much larger staffs than ever before these extra workers couldn coulden t sit in the seats reserved for delegates nor the news people s I 1 so they were given seats ordinarily handed out to the for those of you who stayed home and listened to the radio or read the reports in the paper well what im did you get your impression is highly imbor tant as try to point out later there was and is this danger which trygve lie secretary gen eral ol 01 the unit ed N nations a t I 1 0 n s pointed out in a speech which stirred all the delegates who heard it and you too I 1 imagine if you were listen ing when he sum irian zed it after ward over the 4 ABC network lie said the peoples of the world and baukhage in a n y govern S ments as well are shocked frightened and dis cou raged to find that those same nations which created the united nations so openly disagree he called for a rebirth of the san francisco spirit the spirit which we all felt in those hopeful days when the united nations was born bom A colleague of mine a most re strained and thoughtful commenia com menta tor pauline frederick with con sid erable experience here and abroad told me something which is worth repeat ng she was interview ng eleanor roosevelt at a luncheon at hyde park whatever you may th nh of mrs roosevelt s domestic pol t cs you must know in what high regard she is held as a member of 1 the amer can delegation to the un ted nations my colleague asked her if her heart t heavy over the world situation today I 1 haven t her exact words here but mrs roosevelt replied in the nega tive eShe she said we had expected too much too soon from the united nations and then she went on to point out what so many of the delegates have said namely that faulty and ineffective as ms the united nations may be it is tar far better than nothing how flow many times have I 1 heard that from even the most cynical of the reporters and observers here As the new york times re marked in a recent ed tonal it cannot be stressed too often that the struggle brought to a head in this session of the general assembly is not aga ast the soviet union but FOR the united nations the most striking thing the ed tonal added is the determination of the united nations that means the member nations to survive t 0 one strange phenomenon uh ch eh ap pears to persons not loo well acquainted with the ways of such gatherings is the friendly and ent rely normal manner in which the delegates to the un ted led no na lions ion who attack each other on the ros trum consort in the corridors and lounges provided ded in the two bu edings which now temporarily house the exec ut u ve council and the general assembly respectively that s nothing new to peo pie who have covered congress be s dispensing of news tr Is V ital to U N the longer I 1 1 serve covering these meetings the more I 1 real ze that the most important of all the groups not exclude ng the delegates themselves are those which serve to dispense the news and informs tion concerning the united nations it would be impossible ol 01 course for enough people to lisit the sessions to affect public opinion greatly bul but many of the people who do come go back with a message which stirs great interest in the tion in their communities proof of this interest was contained in the report of the secretary general lie when he said that information had been sent out and other steps taken in cooper atlon with iti a thousand meetings to in the past year but more important than any thing else are the actual reports of press and radio direct from one or the other of the two headquarters or as a result of the many inter views with members of the perma nent secretariat here is what they ve done with rad 0 alone during the general assembly the radio division of the department of public information will broadcast tor for 12 hours a day while visiting radio commentators using facilities leased by the united nations will cover |