| Show United Nations The West's Valuable Weapon A Madeline S. Moore of Denver last week wrote a letter to the editor of the Denver Post in which she United Nations is This stumbling Communist-controlled monstrosity cannot continue to exist unless the American taxpayer underwrites the huge bill to keep it she we pick up the we think the United States pick up the tab for all its the U.N. is still Die best hope we have for keeping our planet in one piece and providing some semblance of international You are right in stating that the operation in the Congo is running millions in the red each But you are wrong when you say that is only another misled U.N. intervention in the chaotic Congo situation is expensive and what it has achieved has been little But it has prevented the Communists from moving into the area and taking advantage of the situation as they have done in Viet In view of the enormity of the consequences with which this and a host of unsettled issues threaten not only individual nations but civilization it must also be said that the little that has been achieved by the UN is better than You must that the U.N. was founded not by but man and inherited many of the frailties that are inherent in There is no evidence to show that the U.N. has prevented any certainly not in the There unmistakable evidence to show that it has materially contributed to the shortening of three In Indonesia in in Palestine in and in Egypt in It has been able to achieve these results as envisaged by the U.N. the United States and Russia had a common interest in shortening these or at i least neither had an interest in prolonging In similar circumstances the U.N. might be able to perform in a similar function of shortening the duration of a This is what is hoped for in the expensive Congo The very that the Western alliance still dwells together with the Bloc in the virtually empty frame devised by the U.N. charter is not without significance for the ability of the U.N. to contribute to the preservation of As long as the two blocs co-exist within the same international with uncommitted nations floating back and forth between the claim of the U.N. of the charter to universality and the maintenance of peace among all great and is still And there also persists the opportunity of personal contacts between representatives of East and which can be used unobtrusively for the mitigation or settlement of You why the United States should not of these foreign entanglements that are keeping us constantly embroiled in the quarrels of and return to American sovereignty and the freedoms of our Republic This was when George Washington delivered his Farewell but no longer can we naively assume that if we retreat to a the Communist threat will be The U.N. is a useful weapon in the West's arsenal of defense and If it would not be trying so hard to destroy the Give the U.N. a We failed to extend that courtesy to the ill-fated League of World War II was our JACK DRYDEN |
