Show a x Nations Must Submerge for Peace Sovereignty By BAUKHAGE News Analyst and Commentator I Service 1616 Eye Street N. N W. W Washington D. D C. C HUNTER COLLEGE T THE H E BRONX N N. N Y Y These notes are being jotted down In the basement of a room that once sounded to the dull thud staccato of soled rubber-soled gym shoes as the girls came trip tripping t P ping ing downstairs from the floor above to scamper Into the showers showers showers show- show ers pull on their bobby socks and other strange accoutrements which distinguish the modern female colO col- col legate qc O It is during a lull in the session of the security council of the United Nations There are no bobby- bobby socks present but hit there thero are some e. e rather solemn looking females here herein b i in the press lounge along with their solemn not male counterparts counterparts counterparts coun coun- snatching a pause that Is isi i supposed to I hear the rapid flow of Fr French some Sla Slavic vIe singsong song Chinese and liquid Spanish In a corner is a television set which at the tho moment reveals reveals reveals re re- re- re Americas America's representative the I 7 white-haired white handsome Mr l Stettin- Stettin ius scratching his left car He Is R J speaking and his words come over 4 f- f the loud speaker The camera f r moves and we see the delegates delegates' I one after another some listening some whispering for has stopped and the loudspeaker Is translating his words into French l. l I have Just gone over these notes and others that formed the basis of later broadcasts from the studio which looks down on the council chamber I am seeking In them an answer to the question which has been asked of me many times Umes since I have been here in New York a question that perhaps you would i ask too if we could reverse the sound waves and let the listener speak and the speaker listen Is the United Nations really goIng go- go going 0 Ing to get anywhere First let me admit that as ns I write we are walking a tight rope tightrope I stretched between two crises either I of which might wreck us or might 1 be forgotten by the time these lines I reach the printed page And of course the rock upon which the United Nations may flounder is the veto Most people dont don't understand the veto Briefly It is the right of any of the Big Powers the permanent members of the executive council to say noto no noto to the discussion of any matter which said power doesn't doesn t want raised Power Politics Still in Force In other words power ver politics Is still dill In force and the only advance we have made is that compromise which Is the basis of all democratic action action is is the only possible solution of controversial questions The undemocratic undemocratic undemocratic un un- un- un democratic alternative is the use of power which In this case may be exercised without the will of the majority The right of the veto is as was brought out In a recent University of Chicago table round discussion really the insistence on the expression of national sovereignty sovereign sovereign- ty the sovereign right of a nation If it gets mad enough to promulgate promulgate promulgate gate the organized savagery of war We can can It is true never hope for any permanent peace until we weare weare weare are willing to yield that sovereignty to a higher authority which expresses expresses expresses ex ex- presses the will of the majority of all peoples The United Nations at present has not been granted that authority But there is hope which I have watched grow as International proceedings proceedings pro pro- J move forward under the impetus of a will to peace and the implementation of ever growing publicity which creates the understanding understanding understanding under under- standing to bolster that will It will It Is this as the United Nations continues continues continues con con- to discuss those matters which are not affected by the veto as it deals with social and economic problems as it plans to do such a strong public sentiment can be built up behind it that nationalistic world minorities cannot stand up against it There is ts that hope There Is an an- 1 other Atomic ener energy J As Chairman Corbett of the department department department de de- of political science of t Yale university put it When it comes to that that conn control control con con- n of atomic energy I think that the discrepancy between the legal situation in the UN he refers to the power er of the veto and the nationalistic Insistence on sovereignty sovereignty sov soy 1 and the actual needs o of f international collaboration are goIng going go- go going Ing to become so glaring that w ware we e are ore going to have to make a direct direct direct di di- di- di I attack upon this problem o of f I the veto The key word to that remark is glaring The needs of International international international collaboration must glare In Inthe inthe inthe the light of pitiless publicity The light of understanding must be shed upon the truths of what another another another an an- other war will mean and It must be more than light Heat must be World sentiment must rise to the degree at which it creates the energy necessary to bring action Peace must become dynamic Positive Thinking Of 01 Youth Needed If you lean back in your jour scat here hereIn In this fabricated conference room of the security council of the United Nations and forget you are just a reporter you get an almost awesome awesome awesome awe awe- some feeling that you are witnessing witnessIng witnessing witness witness- ing a major operation which will decide decIde decide de de- cide the life or death of some great and beloved person It Is all so new so strange So much depends on success Not thelie the life lie of a single person but the lives and happiness of thousands It is hard to convey the atmosphere atmosphere atmos atmos- phere of the tragic solemnity that 1 A m. m Asa I n n w wJ li J Camera snaps at Hunter college with Iranian flag flagin in ba background ground surrounds this place when we strip it of Its outward casualness I hope that the importance of this part of the great experiment In creating creating creating cre cre- world sentiment against war warIs waris waris is getting home to the people I wonder how much of the significance significance significance sig sig- of the part public opinion plays In hi the success of this effort was Impressed on that gathering of students in hi Portland Ore early this month In the first youth conference conference conference con con- ference of its kind representatives of 31 colleges In the northwestern states and British Columbia gathered gathered gathered gath gath- ered to discuss the control of atomic energy and preservation of peace the promotion of social and economic econom econom- ic welfare the promotion of the welfare wel wel- welfare fare of backward peoples the promotion promotion promotion pro pro- motion of world wide human rights and the establishment of effective means for the peaceful settlement settlement settlement settle settle- ment of international disputes Delegates Delegates Delegates Dele Dele- gates will carry back to their respective respective respective re re- campuses resolutions the conference passed the student bodies bodies bod bod- ies les will vote on them and thus provide provide provide pro pro- vide a poll of more than thinking youth many of them veterans of this war half halt of them 21 and voters voters the the generation which must benefit or suffer from the results results results re- re re re- of efforts of the United Nations Na Na- This Is a positive approach In contrast contrast contrast con con- to the negative credo of pacifism pacifism pacifism paci paci- which has been taught in the past Pacifism says DONT DON'T FIGHT IGHT Well that's all right if its it's your religious conviction But when war arrives conscientious objectors cant can't stop it Perhaps they can stop the one AFTER that But its it's the next one we want to prevent now Fire prevention stops more fires than firemen can Removing the firemen firemen firemen fire fire- men wont won't help Somebody has to tobe tobe tobe be put in their place Lets Let's hope the young people can carry back to their campuses the message General MacArthur gave to the world recently that nations must yield their sovereign power tomake to tomake tomake make war war that that sovereignty must rest in hi an International body and incidentally if the people who write rite me asking what they can do to work for peace really mean It It they I might organize similar youth congresses con con- presses In their own awn communities Get youth thinking they are the ones who have to do the fighting I |