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Show U.N. Today Need For Perserverance explosive tensions, and brought struggling opponents to accommodation. accommo-dation. Judged by performance and the realities of the day and not by abstract, wishful standards, the United Nations is thriving, and as an international organization it is a plain necessity of our times. Moreover its future is full of hope and opportunity. United Nations Na-tions intergovernmental programs and conferences are daily bM quietly building, a fabric and foundation foun-dation on which growth can be firm and reliable. With the experience experi-ence of each crisis the UN advances ad-vances the machinery and procedures pro-cedures for peaceful settlement and peaceful change. Before it stands the challenge and the hope of mankind, man-kind, as large as universal disarmament, disarma-ment, as big as outer space. By FISHER HOWE Dept. of State Senior Fellow Dag Hammarskjold, the late, great Secretary General of the United Nations, once commented upon mountain climbing: "What I know about this sport is that the qualities it requires are just those which I feel we all need today perservance and patience, a firm grip on the realities, careful but imaginative planning, a clear awareness of the dangers but also of the fact that fate is what we make it and ... the safest climber is he who never questions his ability abil-ity to overcome all difficulties." As the United Nations this week celebrates its 22nd anniversary of ascent, we can be grateful, first, that it has survived. Viewing the crags and canyons it has faced in these short years, we would do well to appreciate its great accomplishments accom-plishments and not dwell, as do both the cynics and the dreamers, on its inability to reach the peak. Whole Hearted Committent In considering the United Nations Na-tions today, two things which we should focus on: That the commitment commit-ment of the United States to the UN is wholehearted, and that the UN must succeed. Secretary Rusk has said for the United States, "We seek a world community of independent nations, cooperating freely across their national na-tional frontiers to advance common interest, settling their disputes by peaceful means and banding together to-gether to resist aggression." As the first two articles of the chapter so lucidly state, this, too, is the goal of the United Nations. Single Institution And it must succeed. The UN is the single institution which brings together at one table national na-tional and ideological differences. In a world where any breach of the peace could lead to the destruction of civilization, we must use every instrument to preserve the peace and to remove, patiently, the cause of tension. The United Nations in its twenty years has indeed removed re-moved dangerous strife, reduced w . m slifi 1 '-vS; ti:.' A1"! ' "In my judgment, the right of debate in the General Assembly ha proved of value to the world. There is no member great or srnai , which does not show uneasiness at the threat of an Assembly airing of any of its acts. To that extent, it can be fairly said that the Assembly Assem-bly is a world parliament." ...t Chief S. O. Adebo, Permanent Representative of Nigeria to U.n- |