Show GRASSROOTS World Is Becoming Fed Up With Peace Leagues By Wright A. Patterson THE PAST QUARTER of a IN century or the people of the world have suffered three major The first was the failure of the League of of which President Woodrow Wilson was the instigator following World War but which the U.S. senate refused to and we never became a member of that world The people of the world hailed the learnt as a means of preventing all future but It did It bad only no provision for positive It failed when Italy Instituted armed aggression against and the defeat of that small nation was the rock on which the League of Nations was The second disappointment was the loudly acclaimed charter In was never anything more than a 1 a product of a dream of President Franklin D. following a conference of himself and Winston Churchill aboard a battleship in the Shortly after the announcement of the formulation of the Atlantic Churchill Issued a saying he did not accept the head of his British majesty's government for the purpose of liquidating his majesty's The charter was presumed to guarantee the people of each to choose the form of government a majority In wanted and to guarantee the national boundaries of each against any aggression on the part of the larger and stronger Hope of what the Charter would accomplish was not entirely dissipated until President Roosevelt at the Yalta conference gave to Stalin the President's approval to the taking back the three Baltic provinces that had fought for and won their That was done as appeasement for and was in direct violation of the promises of the much vaunted Atlantic People of the small nations had not questioned the President's word when he announced the Atlantic and its provisions hud announced the American President as a great friend of small They did not know that the charter was merely a and to find it had no factual reality proved a sad awakening and a great To them it lowered their appreciation of the United The third major disappointment is the failure of the United Nations to be anything other than an international debating of which each member has only the wish to protect Its own selfish business When It was organised In San Francisco less than six years It was hailed by ih people of all with the possible exception of as marking end of They believed because they wanted to despite the fate that bad marked the League of Nations and the hoax that had been perpetrated as the Atlantic It was to stop aggression on the part of large nations against small When the North Korean Communists Invaded South the United Nations promptly asked President Truman to stop that Invasion and to name General Mac-Arthur a supreme commander of the United Nations At it was American troops and American money that was opposing Later a few member nations contributed in a small When the aggressor became Red China with Its million people and a business customer in a big way of several nations and when the United States was demanding that other nations contribute their full part in supporting the defense of South the debate After more than a month of talk it Is still going The principles Involved mean The one thing being considered is the of business each nation stands to It is on the rock of selfish Interests that the United Nations has run The United has proven no more substantial at s war preventative than did the League of It is only a debating society in which principles are forgotten when business Interests are |