Show Us N converts modern war plant into peace factory by analyst and tanu service 1610 1616 eye street NW washington D 0 LAKE SUCCESS N yat this writing committees ot of the united 4 rations are sti still I 1 I 1 pecking pec ting in the great reat modernistic actori building low colv converted arted nto a plant for or he manufacture V f I 1 international riter national good will A hun him ired committee comm gs are beheld borig bong h held eld in the rooms where nce the delicate ria chinery turning out oil t instruments ments 0 f warfare baukhage nce hummed merrily and efficiently here delegates to the assembly ot of the united nations split up into groups tackle the various subjects to them just as the corn com of e congress di discuss s cuss the bills and agree agre upon their form before they are submitted to the commit see lee ot of the whole house for or con lider ilde atlon ration and action the difference is that the assem oly unlike congress cannot pass laws it can only express the win will of the majority its value Is to register before the world world opinion as tx pressed by the notions which make up the united nations this la Is the first step toward a world government whose chief purpose Is to police lice the world against war while the committee meetings were taking place the security counell council which compares roughly with the senate held some ot of its meetings in the tea same building for or unlike the as te leni rubly bly which meets only once a the security council Is a continuing body rhe council ot of foreign ministers which also is meeting in new york Is s a body entirely separate from rona the united nations kith saddle U S with U N expenses it was characteristic of the desire to maintain a realistic attitude let us hope which resulted in the emphasis on fiscal matters causing newspapers on the first days committee meetings to display a head like this U US S OPPOSES PAYING HALF OF U N s aills at the meeting of the budgetary committee senator got in ili a sly dig when he suggested that if the other nations felt theamer the american economic system was so good that it could put up half the money to run the organization perhaps they might adopt a similar system capitalist america would pay per cent of UN s bills while communist russia although much greater in size eize and population would provide 5 3 per cent in the plan submitted of course any amount balanced against the price of war is small powerful committees are in the making the work of the committees of the assembly covers a wide scope since besides offering the sounding board tor for 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 powerful when and if they carry out the duties planned for them for instance the many plans for or improving living standards and social relations throughout the world which is the purpose of the economic and social council and the projected trusteeship council which will 0 oversee v erace the relationship between the d dependent epen dent countries and the nat nations ions held responsible for or their control and welfare another important function of the assembly is initiating amendments to the charter and this session bristled with talk amon among the smaller countries for or amending provisions governing the power of the veto in security council russians vie to last minute early in ili the meetings of the general committee the steering committee and in the assembly itself it became evident that the russians were following a general plan of procedure which was not unlike that which had appeared and still is appearing in all the controversies the russian delegates frequently 0 oppose vp violently a point and then when they see that they are beaten yield sometimes this looks like pure obstructionism sometimes it seems merely an effort to display strength and combativeness sometimes sometime s it Is only a patent move to keep russia in the forefront of the negotiations as a force with which to be reckoned there Is also the language barrier probably there are no more competent performers the various 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 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 lean and scholarly looking young man who appears to wrap himself about molotov or and with his lips close to the listeners ear pours in the words so rapidly that it would appear they synchronize with the movement of the speakers lips but even a perfect translation may produce a different meaning lust just as the same word may mean two different things in the same language to two different pairs of ears you may recall the famous molotov outburst at the opening of the assembly the speech in which the russian delegate demanded disarmament objected to the baruch atomic energy plan and went right down the une line walloping everything in sight fight As I 1 remarked earlier there therea was more smoke than fire alre in that tirade and american delegate austin suspecting as much made the terse comment on the speech smart but tough when the translations came back from the report in the russian press austins akstins Aus tins words became smart but sharp now it may be that tough is a tougher wordin russian than it Is in english because the russians ordinary conduct in such and some other matters all the way from dancing to breakfasting on vodka may be what we would consider tougher than the anglo saxon approach americans conscious of foreign policy most americans do not realize how tar far this nation has gone in the establishment of a foreign policy built on popular desire in the past the foreign policy of the united states always had been a rather va vague gue 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 that really work in some of the rooms in the early days the subject was kept out of domestic politics simply because the politicians knew that the people knew as little as they did a as s to what it was all about and t care any more then came the famous wilson versus lodge fight over the league of nations which was really something far deeper tha than n that a fight of two powerful personalities and two different concepts of government not world government but domestic government lodge and wilson 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 came to a discussion on foreign affairs and the fine old tradition which was really a negative thing foreign affairs ends at the shore line was split wide open and then the bloody conflict of world war 11 II made people realize that democratic and republican blood when it rowed flowed on an the battlefield was the same color and caused the same gaping wounds at home the ine campaign which we have just witnessed while it was characterized with the some same old fuss and fury of the past omitted the question of foreign policy except when it was raised by persons already discredited by both major maior parties that is the hope as I 1 see it tor for american dominance for the dominance of the american idea of human freedom we have learned thal tha when it comes to facing the world we meet it shoulder to shoulder as americans and nothing else B BA A R B S by bauh baukhage hage one of 0 the problems ot of the united nations Is to find out whether the russians prefer to export caviar or communism did you ever think when your mother made you use an atomizer to clear your head of a cold that atomizers might lay a million people cold Is this progress the difference between a communist and a fellow traveler Is that one knows where he wants to go anc ana the other Is being taken tor for a ride paul scott mowrer says that has solved the problems of 0 the economic cycles the booms and busts of capitalism by achieving a permanent depression |