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Show I dekind tlte Jdeadliried 1 i . i lion, isn't it showing that Hungary Hun-gary is now actually a dead issue as far as the UN is concerned? How can the UN talk loftily of controlling the race for outer , space when it fails repeatedly to bring the arms race here on our earth under control? Can any East-West atomic test ban be effective without binding Communist Com-munist China to such an agreement, agree-ment, too? Why is the United States losing ground in its efforts ef-forts to prevent the other UN members from recognizing the Red Chinese? Why is there such remarkably little enthusiasm at the UN for creation of a permanent perma-nent UN Police Force? Is it because be-cause the UN knows it can never be stronger in defending nations against aggression than the U.S. willingness to fight? What has the UN done since the easing of the Mideast and Formosan crises to solve each area's basic problems prob-lems to prevent new crises? These are some of the questions few at the UN, including U. S. Ambassador Lodge feel they would like to answer just now. But pretending the knotty questions ques-tions aren't there won't make them go away. where American troops landed, in Iraq when that government fell, while some of the most awful aw-ful atrocities were being made against the Batista regime in Cuba, Cu-ba, or even in the little fishing war between Iceland and Great Britain. Now that the Berlin crisis has focused new world attention to the possibility of East-West Foreign For-eign Ministers and Summit negotiations, ne-gotiations, it is remembered that President Eisenhower proposed earlier Summit talks within the UN framework, which held out prospects for strengthening the world organization. This came during the Formosan-Iraqui crisis cri-sis when, for a time it appeared last summer that Soviet Premier Krushchev might even come to the UN to attend Summit talks under UN auspices in New York. The UN really would have been only a site for such talks if they had not been torpedoed by Mr. Krushchev himself. Yet, President Presi-dent Eisenhower himself said it was our hope that such talks might also strengthen the UN. Now, even though new attention atten-tion is being given to the possibility possi-bility of new Summit talks, riiimiiiiitiffliniiiiiniiiiiiHiiinimiiiiiiniiiniiJiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinniraiii This columnist has never been among those who sometimes appear ap-pear to delight in taking pot shots at the United Nations. Imperfect Im-perfect as it is, the UN is the world's only continuing international interna-tional agency nations can turn to if they wish to negotiate disputes. dis-putes. It represents moral force in world affairs. The UN's specialized spe-cialized agencies, in helping to improve health, educational and living standards in the rest of the world, are one of the best arguments for its existence. Yet, I could not consider my-1 self an objective observer if I did not" report, even as the 1959 session of the UN General Assembly As-sembly is getting ready to convene, con-vene, that the UN is coming in for a new round of criticism by its friends and foes, its supporters support-ers and detractors alike. This assumes special importance import-ance in view of the fact that our UN Ambassador. Henry Cabot closely watched, more critically examined. At the same time, however, both friends and foes are expressing ex-pressing increasing criticism of the UN. The very quiet from the big glass "Peace Forum" on New York's East River appears, for the moment, to be all that is spotlighting the UN. We are supposed to be on the bring of another war threat in Berlin, for example, with the Soviets So-viets warning that they will push the West out of the divided former for-mer capital on or about May 27. In other times, during other crises, it might be supposed that the United Nations would be working feverishly to head off this new threat to peace. Yet, everyone appears to be going out of the way not to mention Berlin here. There has been no indication that the UN will even concern itself with the problem, pretending, if it can, that it does Lodge, Jr., is among those mentioned men-tioned as having an inside track to succeed John Foster Dulles if the Secretary of State's present illness forces him to retire. And even though Dulles is expected to remain on through negotiations negotia-tions in the present Berlin crisis it's freely predicted that he will be forced by illness to retire, except ex-cept as a special advisor, long before President Eisenhower retires re-tires from the White House in 1961. Under these circumstances, Mr. Lodge comes in for special attention. at-tention. His role during the reconvened re-convened 1958 session of the UN! General Assembly and during the 1959 session will be more not even exist, or preferring that attempts be! made to resolve it first outside of the United Nations. Na-tions. This tendency to allow itself to be bypassed is one of the chief reasons the UN is under new attack. It's being asked, "Where, ! oh where has the UN been fori the past year?" The past year has seen the failure of the UN to act on any of the really big international! crises not just fail to solve j them, mnid you, but even to pre-1 tend they were there. The UN played no real role in the Algerian Algeri-an problem, the Cyprus dispute, the crisis over Formosa and the Quemoy Islands, in Lebanon, there is no real enthusiasm, at the UN, at least, for bringing them there. There has been surprisingly sur-prisingly little UN response to suggestions by Krushchev, Sen. Mansfield (D-Mon.) and others for replacing Allied and Soviet forces in Berlin with UN troops. Disregarding the merits of the proposals, one has the impres-( impres-( sion that the UN would prefer to sidestep the idea. Some other questions now be- ing asked as the 1959 session of ! the UN convenes are: Why has not the UN even attempted to study the Berlin and German re-unification problems? By its failure to do anything really effective ef-fective on the Hungarian rebel- |