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Show " THE SALT LAKE TIMES Page Two FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 1962 i A ilLiieltinJ lite JeadfineJ fc Both Congress and the United Nations have at least one thing in common at the moment. They are both in recess. And if some U.S. congressmen feet at times that the U.N. intrudes upon U.S. sovereignty, it will appear to be the other way around when Con-gress returns this month and con-cerns itself with the U.N. in a way that it has rarely done be-fore. Congressmen, angered by re-peated U.N. failures to act to-ward the Communist world as it does against the Western "colonialist" powers, are deter-mined to seek fullscale investiga-tions of the U.N.'s policy in the Congo and Katanga and of the U.S. financial commitment to the U.N. Moreover, where in the past, congressional critics of the U.N. have tempered their criticism of the U.N. in the realization that it still enjoyed the people's confi-dence, they now know that they would be riding a politically popular tide of skepticism. The U.N. is under attack in a way that it has not been in the 16 years since its founding in 1945. And worse, the U.N. is be-ing freely, sarcastically and dis-turbingly compared to the old League of Nations, for its failure to pacify the Congo, its attack on pro-Weste- rn Katanga, its failure even to vote censure of India for its seizure of the three Portu-guese enclaves and for its dis-interest in Indonesian threats to seize Dutch New Guinea. The U.N. crisis over the new aggressiveness of the underdevel-oped nations, the Congo jumble, Berlin "crisis" and Asian turmoil is disturbingly similar to the 1936 atmosphere that doomed the League of Nations. Sukarno. The polls show that most Americans still back the U.N. in contrast to those who had lost faith in the League. But the number of those Americans urg-ing the U.S. to abandon the United Nations is also growing. All of this comes in sharp con-trast to the flush of postwar "One Worldism" in 1945, in which the United Nations was almost universally hailed as "Humanity's Hope," which in many ways it still is. But the U.N. has only hurt it-self and its peacemaking capacity by its failures as did the League. The U.N.'s utter failure to act during the Hungarian revolt was probably the most critical turn-ing point in its history. Since then, the U.N.'s few successes have been outweighed by its shortcomings and failures. Its present "crisis of confidence," following even Nehru's disdain for the U.N. and the U.N.'s failure to cope with an insulting Khru-shchev have dealt hard blows to its prestige. In the past, the U.S. has based much of its foreign policy on the U.N. cornerstone. The thwarted Cuban invasion, in which Presi-dent Kennedy proclaimed a hemispheric "go-it-alon- e" policy may have been a U.S. turning poniintit ailuekth-shrdiaetlou- n point in its ties to the U.N. ,Since then, the Kennedy Ad-ministration's Chester Bowles has even declared that we will follow a "go-it-alon- e" policy in the Congo and Southeast Asia if the U.N. cannot prevent a Communist ascendancy there. We will continue to work through the U.N. wherever pos-sible, but not rely on it. The US will continue to woo and hope to win the "Neutralists," but will be prepared to use mili-tary force, wherever it is felt necessary, as the "Neutralists themselves have now done. The U S will continue efforts to keep the U.N. solvent by underwriting U.N. Bonds. We will strive to have an effective voice in the U.N., which is a chief reason why President Kennedy wanted Adlai Stevenson to shun the Illi-nois Senate race to stay on as U S. Ambassador to the U.N. But the U.S. is also determined to become more self-relian- t, de-velop more freedom of action in world affairs, increase its own military readiness and strength-en NATO, CENTO, SEATO and the other alliances. Congress will be a key to all of this. The Common Market West European economic bloc is becoming the key to NATO as well as overall allied global stra-tegy Our economic ties to such countries as Japan are corner-stones of our mutual military links. The League fell apart over Japan's unpunished invasion of China, just as all Asia is again aflame. The U.N. has taken ab-solutely no meaningful action against Red China's brutal op-pression of Tibet. The crisis in Laos is virtually ignored by the U.N. The U.N. has done nothing to stem the danger of another Korean War in South Vietnam. Nehru's violent abandonment of non-violen- ce in seizing the Por-tuguese enclaves exposed the U.N.'s helplessness. Indonesia's Sukarno threatens to use vio-lence against the Dutch with im-punity. In Europe, the old League fell apart over its failure to halt Hitler's Germany, just as the U.N. has failed to liberate en-slaved East Europe, provide Cen-tral European security against aggression and as it has evaded action from the very beginning on the whole German problem and Khrushchev's threat to Ber-lin. But it was the League's utter This strategy of strengthening our military ties economically will also be what Congress will be voting for or against when it acts on President Kennedy's con-troversial trade policies, which he has made a first order of business. Tariff-cuttin- g may or may not be the answer. But a statesmanlike, intelligent, con-structive approach is essential. failure to prevent Mussolini s ag-gression against Ethiopia that hastened its complete collapse a full four years before the Sec-ond World War, just as the U.N. is on the verge of collapse in the Congo, unable to bring freedom and justice to Angola, end racial oppression in South Africa, paci-fy the Arab-Israe- li crisis, or ter-minate the Algerian rebellion. President John F. Kennedy, who as a perceptive Harvard youth, saw what was happening to the League, must now be grim-ly aware of the fatefull parallels that can be drawn between Mus-solnii- 's African aggressions and the crisis in the Congo, between Hitler's Central Eupropean ag-gressions and Khrushchev's Ber-lin threat and between Japan's aggressiveness in Asia and those by Red China's Mao, Nehru and New Arrival Finds Utah Perfect Place To Live and Work Utah was pointed out as a good place to work and a good place to live in the recent issue of a national magazine (Cosmo-politan) which is just on the newsstands. The picture story features a newcomer to Utah, John Thir-ki- ll of Brigham City and his family, and shows his activities in the hectic work-a-da- y routine at the Thiokol missile plant. It also describes his off-t- he-job ac-tivities with his family. Thirkill is representative of the hundreds of outstanding, young engineer-executiv- es who have come to make their homes in Utah and learned to enjoy the scenery, the skiing, the hunting the fishing and the "good way of life" to be found in this state. Thirkill, typical of the young men who hold responsible posi-tions in this relatively new field is head of the preliminary design and analysis department of the Wasatch Division of Thiokol Chemical Corporation. He de-scribes Utah as "the perfect place to live." Eight Westminster Students Named To New Who's Who Eight Westminster College stu-dents have been named in the 1961-6- 2 edition of Who's Who Among Students in American colleges and universities. Allan W. Bosch, Academic Vice-Preside- nt at Westminster, announced today that six seniors and two juniors have been se-lected. Bosch stated that qualif-ication for this honor includes "the student's scholarship, his participation and leadership in academic and extracurricular ac-tivities, his citizenship and serv-ice to the school, and his pro-mise of future usefulness." Seniors chosen for the honor are: Irene Baylor, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Baylor, 807 Northview Drive, Twin Falls, Idaho; Carol Frances Cheminant, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Cheminant, 1825 Garfield Ave-nue, Salt Lake City; Stewart M. Hanson, Jr.; son of Mr. and Mrs. Stewart M. Hanson, 3812 Hillsden Drive, Salt Lake City; Mrs. Doris L. Krauss, 1630 South 14th East, Salt Lake City; James A. Smith, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. James A. Smith, Port Ches-ter, New York; and Robert J. Stansfield, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Stansfield. 1830 South Woodside Drive, Salt Lake City. Juniors are: James I. Morris, son of Rev. and Mrs. I. N. Morris, 5740 Ortego Street, Sacramento, California; and Patricia Jane Nysewander, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. 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