Show 0 UN IL N converts modern modem war DI plant into peace fac factory tory dy by news analyst and commentator service 1016 eye cye street NW washington D 0 LAKE SUCCESS N Y yat at this writing committees of the united rations are still ne geeting eting in the N treat great modernistic actori building 4 low colv converted rt d nto ft a plant for ne he manufacture f international good will A hun srba committee geetings nee tings are berig held in the I 1 rooms where nce ace the delicate na machinery chinery turning M out instruments ot of warfare baukhage nce hummed merrily and efficiently here delegates to the assembly of the united nations split up into groups tackle the various subjects to them just as the committees af congress discuss the bills I 1 ond ind agree upon their form before the th eyare ylare submitted to the commit lee of the tha whole house for con lder atlon ond and action the difference is that the assem oly unlike congress cannot pass laws it can only express the will of the majority its value is to register before the world world opinion as ox oppressed pressed by the nations which make up the united nations this Is the brat S step t toward a world bovein govern ment ap whose ose chief purpose isto Is to police the world against war while the committee meetings ware vero taking place the security counell council which compares roughly with the senate enate held some of Us its meetings as in the some same building tor for unlike the as embly which meets only once a year the security council is a continuing body the council ot foreign ministers which also Is meeting ln in new york Is a body en entirely separate from the united nations i saddle V S with U av N expenses it was waa characteristic character char acte pf af the desire to maintain tain a realistic attitude letus chopo which resulted in tile the em emphasis on fiscal matters caus causing big newspapers on the first days corn Mit cittee tee meetings to display a head like this U V 8 OPPOSES HALF i I 1 OF U N r a HILLS ILLS at the meeting of the budgetary committee sinator got lna in a sly dig when ho suggested that it the other nations felt the american ica n economic system wasso was ao good that it could put up half the money to gunthe run the organization perhaps they might adopt a 4 similar system capt america would pay 40 89 per pe C cent of UN s bills while communist 11 russia disla although much greater in size site and poul population atlon would provide provid 6 I 1 percent per cent inthe in the plan submitted of course any amount balanced N against the price ot of waris war is small committees areen re 1 m the fhe making the work of tile the committees of 0 the as assembly hembly co covers versa n wide scope since besides offering the sounding board for or world opinion and controlling the purse strings of the whole organization the committees likewise supervise the several important subsidiary agencies some of which will become extremely pow erful when and it if they carry out tho duties planned tor for them for instance the many plans for improving living standards and social relations lons throughout the world which Is the purpose of the economic and social co council uncil and the projected I trusteeship council which will versee oversee the relationship between the tha dependent countries and the nations held responsible for their control and welfare another important function of the assembly Bs Is initiating amendments to the charter and this session bris arts ild with talk among the smaller counties for fop amending provisions governing the power odthe of the veto in security council russians vie to last manu minute te early it the meetings of the geneval general committee the steering corn com cittee and in the assem assembly bb itself it became evident that the russians were following a general plan of 0 procedure which was not unlike that which had appeared and still is appearing pear ingin in all the controversies the russian delegates frequently oppose violently a point and then when they see sec that they are beaten yield sometimes this looks like 0 pure obstructionism sometimes it seems seem merely an effort to display strength and combativeness sometimes it Is only a patent move to keep russia in the forefront of the negotiations as a force with which to bo be reckoned there Is also the language barrier probably there are no more competent performers among the varl types of experts than the translators at these international gatherings much has been written of their remarkable ability to translate without taking a single note long paragraphs of some speakers who get so deep in their subjects that they torget forget that the translator Is waiting patiently to translate one segment before the speaker goes on to the next prize of them all is pavlov the ean and scholarly looking young man who appears to wrap himself about molotov or and with his lips close to the listeners ear pours in tho the words so rapidly that jt it would appear they synchronize with the movement of the speakers lips dut but even a perfect translation may produce a different meaning just as the same word may mean two different things in the same language gua geto to two different pairs of ears Youry you may iny re recall aall tho the famous molotov outburst ot at tho the opening of the assembly the speech in which the russian delegate demanded disarmament objected to tho the baruch atomic energy plan prid and went right down the una walloping everything in sight As 1 1 remarked earlier there was more smoke than fire alro in that tirado tirade and american delegate austin suspecting as much made the terse comment on the speech smart but tough when the tha translations came back from rom the report in the russian press austins akstins Aus tins words became smart but sharp harp now n w it may bo be that tough is a tougher word in russian than wig it is in english because the russians or conduct in such and some other matters mattei nil all the way from dancing to breakfasting on an vodka may be what we would consider tougher than the anglo saxon approach americana conscious of foreign policy most americans dor da no not realize how tar far this nation ila lias s gone in the establishment of a foreign policy built on popular deslie desire in the past the foreign policy of ape the united states always had been a rather vague thing to people in general something evolved behind a screen of formal phrases in the ancient high offices of the old state department building where they still have marble fireplaces places that really work in some of the rooms i in the early days the subject was kept out of domestic politics polities simply because the politicians knew that the people knew as little as they did as to what it was al all labout about and carmany caro any more then camo came tle the fa wilson versus lodge fight over the league of nations which was waa i really something far deeper than that a acht of two powerful person all lies and two different concepts of government not world govern government menti but domestic government lodge I 1 and illson became so definitely committed to their own respective views that they afford to compromise after that each party considered it fair game to rip the other up the back when it camo came to a discussion on foreign affairs and the fine old tradition which was really a negative thing foreign affairs ends at tile the shore share line was wai split wide open A and d then the iho bloody conflict of Z world id war 11 II made people realize that democratic and republican blood when it flowed on the battlefield was the same color or and caused the same gaping wounds at home the campaign which we have just witnessed while it was characterized with the same old fuss and fury of the past omitted the question of foreign policy except when it was waa raised by already discredited by both major parties that Is the iho hope as asee 1 see it tor for american dominance for the dominance of the american idea of human tre freedom edom we have learned that when it comes to facing vie the world we meet leei it if shoulder should dei cr to shoulder as americans and nothing else |