Show I THE WHITE PAPER By DENNIS WHITE On Monday the United Nations General Assembly dealt a mortal blow to In an historic the Assembly passed an Afro-Asian resolution which created a committee to make recommendations for speeding the end of This most recent meeting of the General Assembly was unusual in at least three the United States was found voting against its most important allies for the second time in United Nations It again found the U.S. and Russia voting together and it marked an astounding endorsement for a neutralist sponsored THE FACT that the United States voted as it did seems surprising in light of the fact that during a similar vote taken last year the U.S. abstained from the It may indicate that the United States has taken a new look at our foreign policy and decided that its interests among the uncommitted or neutral nations needs The vote itself was historic in that 97 out of nations in the U.N. voted together in what might be termed a unanimous decision in favor of self-d Spain and South Africa Honduras was absent and which was the chief target of the declared itself not a new term in the of the U.N. As part of the debate on this a Russian amendment to set 1962 as the target for the end of colonialism was defeated by the This latest defeat of a Soviet proposal held more meaning than most defeats the USSR suffers in the U.N. It was an indication that the Asian and African nations were not prepared to let the Soviets take the leadership in the fight against colonialism away from The month long debate on the issue of colonialism further indicates a new and very potent power Many new- i ly-admitted nations to the U.N. more often than not take their nationhood more if less responsibly than the older states of the West and With the admission of these new the big powers are losing the tight control they once had in the U.N. The result is that a new power bloc is being formed that well may decide the fate of the |