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Show United Nations Week Good Time For Thinking Peace The Russian satellite moon encircling en-circling the earth approximately 15 times a day reminds us how small and closely inter-related this planet of ours has become. What happens on the other side of the globe has almost Immediate repercussions in our own country. We cannot cut ourselves off from what gees on in the rest of the world. And we ignore it at our peril. per-il. Earnest American concern over the role of the United Nations is thus made more important by recent re-cent atomic, missile and sattellite developments. Unless we are to stake our whole future on American Ameri-can staying power in a catastrophic catastro-phic struggle for survival, the way must be frJund to maintain peace and security through some kind of international agreement. The best hope for such an effective ef-fective agreement surely lies in the United Nations. Imperfect tho it has been in many respects, it has notable achievements to its credit. And if men of good will, and nations earnestly seeking peaceful solutions, give it their support, there is every reason to believe it will :gain in stature and in power. This is United Nations Week, and it is a good time for all Americans Am-ericans to give thought to the imperative im-perative necessity of maintaining pea.ee in a world of the hydrogen bomb, the intercontinental missile find the globecircling satellite and to the probability that the U.N. offers the best hope of achieving that end. |