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Show ABOVE THE By LYTLE HULL OF THE SIXTY votes In the General Assembly of the United Unit-ed Nations, the western bloc has 20, Latin America 19, the Arab-Asiatic Arab-Asiatic bloc 16, and tha Communist's Commu-nist's five. Some of the engineers of this arrangement ar-rangement wert not friendly to the United States. There were a number num-ber of more equitable plans which could have been adopted, but for reasons which seem to bt developing devel-oping as time goes on, the current setup was put Into effect. The Russian reasons along dt- vlous lines. He figures much further fur-ther ahead than wt have tha patience pa-tience to do. The . fact that this powerful bloc has only five votes in the Assembly seems on the face of it inequitable when one considers con-siders that Latin America alone has 19. But the master minds of the "Communist world revolution" without question figured to eventually even-tually wean away from the free bloc enough nations to place control of the U. N. In the Kremlin's hands. Already Guatamala had gone Red: Bolivia looks like the next victim; and even Chile seems to be contemplating changes. Our neglect neg-lect of South America and Russia's terrifically energetic machinations there are bearing Red fruit much too rapidly. And what about the near east and the far east? Certain of these nations na-tions seem trembling in the balance, bal-ance, and our bungling doesn't tip the scales toward the free cause. As soon as the Reds can muster sufficient votes they will of course obtain entry into the U. N. of the satellites and thus gain complete mastery over the Assembly.- All this must have been contemplated at the time the U. N., was organized organ-ized else Russia would surely not have enrolled where she controlled such a minor voting power. Already the wind seems shifting toward the east. We quote from October 19 issue of the. New York Times: "But it is anticipated that at this session, for the "first time In the history of the United Nations, the United States will find itself on the losing side of a number of important im-portant issues." |