| Show iBi A aw I LM STUDENTS from 72 Utah high schools listen to Ralph Bundle's opening address to the Utah High School Model United UN Is Says By MEG HAMPTON Chronicle Editor in Chief A that the United Nations is still a vital organization and that through it nuclear war can be avoided was expressed by Ralph undersecretary for the United in three speaking appearances on the campus BUNCHE opened the Utah High School Model United Nations Friday held a press conference in the and spoke Friday evening in the Ballroom under the auspices of At the morning press Bunche supported disarmament conferences and said that nations are now to disarmament in the nuclear The great pressure of the nuclear arms race will eventually end he since the mechanism for disarmament already IN BOTH Bunche stressed that participation in any international agreement implies some voluntary surrender of individual Calling critics who advocate U.S. withdrawal from the United Nations an Wight on our Bundle said that the United Nations is not controlled by the Soviets or any bloc of American critics of the he want a United Nations controlled by the United This is a contradiction of the incept of International SAFE and sane world is Within our he United Nations is very much and will It must survive if the world is to Centering his Friday night remarks on Challenge of Bunche pointed out two of the contemporary colonialism and the preponderance in the world of non-white and underdeveloped African problems dominate United he be- Delegates to the Model UN met in General Committee and Council Approximately students took cause the new African nations have gone from colonial status to independence with overwhelming rapidity and are jealous of their newly-won independence and sensitive to racial HE POINTED OUT a serious lack of understanding of Africa in the United There is too much of a tendency to think of it as a homogeneous he The new states are not politically prepared for but neither have most new nations including the United the speaker The rapid pace of independence in Africa has given the world a new sense of responsibility toward independent and underdeveloped he the great distance between developed and underdeveloped peoples is steadily constituting sternest long-range test for the United Nations and the HE CALLED the Congo crisis the United Nations' most severe test to and maintained that only UN intervention had prevented another Korea He expressed confident hope for reconciliation in the Bunche advocated an end to racial discrimination in United calling it a waste of human resources at a time when we need our strength against a foreign and Communists' best propaganda weapon against the United |
