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Show World Peace Hopes Converge On Conference in San Francisco S ferences between them must be ironed out in order to build an organization or-ganization that will be effective and enduring. Everything Arranged Early. Experienced protocol officers have had to work out in advance details of seating arrangements at meetings both general and committee as well as at banquets and dinners, and hotel room assignments. Transportation Transporta-tion from air fields to hotels and from hotels to meeting places had to be provided. San Francisco is a cosmopolitan city with a population made up of persons from all parts of the world. Many of its taxi drivers speak other languages in addition to English. Eng-lish. Each taxicab carries a sign indicating the languages that its driver speaks, so that foreign delegates dele-gates may pick out a driver conversant con-versant in his own language. Headquarters for the United Nations Na-tions convention are in one of the large hotels on Knob hill. Meetings are being held in several of the large public buildings in San Francisco's Fran-cisco's Civic center, such as War Memorial Opera house, Veterans' auditorium and the Civic auditorium. Rules governing the press and the public follow in general the pattern established at the Chapultepec conference con-ference in Mexico city, where the press had admittance to all general meetings and information sources from committee meetings. Many of the general meetings are open to the public, so far as space makes that possible. It is a privilege long to be remembered to sit in on a session where a constitution of the United Nations is being created. Details to Committees. Much of the actual business of the convention of necessity is done in committee meetings where plans and details are formulated, discussed, dis-cussed, changed, and worked up into a cohesive program, to be presented pre-sented to the general conference. Here differences come up necessitating necessi-tating reference back to committee, often time and time again. It is no easy job to create an instrument to govern international relations acceptable ac-ceptable to people from every continent of the earth. But present day transportation and communications have erased the barriers of distance and isolation. isola-tion. There is no isolation, we are a part of a family of nations. Kipling wrote, "East is east and west is west and ne'er the twain shall meet." But Kipling was probably wrong. The "twain" are meeting where the east and the west come together geographically and spiritu- An Organization With Responsibility, Power Envisioned by Planners By JOHN E. JONES Released by Western Newspaper Union. Out of the Yalta conference of the Big Three came the electrifying electrify-ing news that San Francisco had been selected for the coming United Nations conference "We have agreed," they said, "that a conference confer-ence of United Nations should be called to meet at San Francisco in the United States on April 25, 1945, to prepare the charter of such an organization, along the line proposed pro-posed in the informal conversations at Dumbarton Oaks." Official announcement came to San Francisco's Mayor Lapham from Acting Secretary of State Joseph C. Grew with the further advice ad-vice that "Representatives of the department of state will get in touch with you in a day or so with regard to necessary arrangements for the conference." And so San Francisco, most western of our American cities, founded in 1776, the same year as our Declaration of Independence, becomes the .focal point of men's hopes from all parts of the world for enduring peace. San Francisco, the Golden Gate of the '49ers, becomes be-comes now the new Golden Gateway to future security for all mankind. If you take a map of the world and draw lines from Russia to South Africa, from Egypt to China, from Central Europe to India, from the Philippines to the Scandinavias, from Greenland to Australia, and from Canada to New Zealand, all of these lines will cross or converge at San Francisco. So San Francisco becomes the world peace center. 'No World War III.' Indicative of the importance of this meeting are some of the statements state-ments made by ' statesmen and pressmen. Veteran newsman Mark Sullivan: "The greatest present need of the world is to see that there shall be no World War III. This is the beginning of everything and the objective of everything." Lt. Cmdr. Harold Stassen, delegate: dele-gate: "I hope that San Francisco may mean for the world of tomorrow to-morrow what Constitution hall at Philadelphia meant for the United States of America." Anthony Eden, foreign secretary of the British empire: "This may be the world's last chance to create an effective peace organization combining com-bining responsibility with power." Attendance at the meeting bears out this importance. Forty-four nations from all continents of the earth are represented. It has been estimated that delegates and their attendants, secretaries, advisers experts on all matters of government total some 1,500 persons. News gatherers press and radio number upwards of 1,000. San Francisco is lost to from 2,500 to 3,000 persons. Our state department has had representatives rep-resentatives in San Francisco since March preparing for the big meeting, meet-ing, which taxes every facility of the coast city. Hotels, which have ilready been full to overflowing for the last two years or more, have io take care of several thousand more. The department of state has reserved 3,200 rooms in the larger aotels, taking over entirely several of the largest. The San Francisco chamber of commerce has advised people not directly connected with the conference to stay away from the city during April and May. No one knows how long the conference con-ference will remain in session. First plans were for approximately four weeks. It may last eight weeks or longer, for a big job has to be done. East meets West, and all of the dif- ally in San Francisco, at the Golden Gateway to future peace and security securi-ty among the nations of the earth. The peoples of the United Nations look to San Francisco Australians, Asiatics, Europeans, Africans, Americans north and south all have their hearts and hopes in the convention beginning on April 25. Who knows but that in their hearts the common people of our enemy, both European and Asiatic, are putting their hopes in this world meeting for an end to the catastrophe catas-trophe which they started but could not finish. Atop Mt. Davidson, 900 feet above the city of San Francisco, is a huge cross. Here annually some 50,000 of the city's diverse population have gathered on Easter Sundays to worship wor-ship at the foot of this cross. Here all forget their differences of race and creed in a common reverence. Never before has this cross been lighted at any other time than Holy Week and Easter. Now, however, it is illuminated during the entire international in-ternational conference that it may be a guiding light to bring together to-gether the east and the west; and in the spirit for which it stands make brothers of us all in the United Nations of the World. I yJV Because of its central location, m'fWIW (MSM I rfw!iii?tS San Francisco was a wise choice for ME&i tJP V, world conference site. I fJ&j W I I I |