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Show Marshal Smuts Doubts Soundness Of United Nations Jan Christian Smuts, Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa, thinks that the nations of the earth made a mistake when they formed the United Nations Na-tions before peace had been made effective. The famous South African who fought the British in the Boer War and then fought on the side of the. Empire in subsequent struggles, says that because the peace had not been concluded when the United Nations was set up, the organization has been dragged into disputes which it was never designed or intended to deal with. Marshal Smuts takes the viewpoint view-point that Europe must be restored re-stored to peace and reasonable prosperity before our energies can be concentrated on shaping the United Nations organization for the future. Calling Europe "the heart of our world problem," prob-lem," the former Boer leader points out that it holds a great concentration of brilliant peoples peo-ples who have made the modern world, but that the Continent is "sick;, very sick." For this reason, he thinks that the Marshall Plan is of the first importance because it brings the resources of the United States to the rescue of Europe, where necessary, but he adds that the .Marshall Plan is only the beginning. begin-ning. Europe "needs a spiritual awakening a hope to hold on to." This, he suggests, will be found in a closer cooperation and union, such as British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin has suggested. sug-gested. The South African leader makes it plain that Russia is not excluded from the restoration of Europe "except by her own choice." The Soviet started her Eastern bloc long before the Western European union was discussed and is now resisting the effort to restore the economy of Europe. Russia, he insists, "has chosen to isolate herself." |
