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When the Security Council blocked any action against India's aggression in Goa, Adlai Stevenson, recalling the League of Nations' failure to oppose aggression, gloomily warned: "We are witnessing the first act in a drama which could end with [the U.N.'s] death." British Foreign Secretary Lord Home, criticizing the U.N. action against Katanga, warned that Britain might withdraw its financial support. In Washington there were demands for congressional investigation of U.S. policies toward...
...President Kennedy said last fall, "the only true alternative to war." The U.N. can perhaps reduce but cannot replace the use of force for urgent national self-interest. That is why some observers who do not necessarily approve of Nehru's actions in Goa feel, nevertheless, that Stevenson became somewhat too sweeping in his condemnation of the use of force. Since Korea, the U.S. has used force in Lebanon and may have to use it again in Cuba or Viet...
...Facts. What seemed particularly annoying about the U.N.'s position on Goa was that Afro-Asian nations which, like India itself, have always preached patience and compromise to the U.S., did not even raise a whisper of protest over India's Charter violation. As Paris' Le Monde put it: "One could hope that a few voices would be heard in the neutralist camp to deplore, in however friendly a fashion, the Indian decision. It seems that anticolonialism excuses everything." Obviously unable to line up any support from Afro-Asian nations to censure India, the U.S. dropped...
...General Assembly. It has been clear for some time that the rush of the new African members into the U.N. would reduce or destroy those majorities. Some of these new members are volatile, hypnotized by the archaic fear of colonialism, and easily susceptible to Communist influence. As in the Goa case, many of them act blindly on a double standard, ready to condemn the West, rarely ready to criticize their own friends or the Communists. Does this mean, as some suggested last week, that the "Afro-Asian bloc" must be written off. and with it, the U.N.? By no means...
...India's armed forces rolled into Goa last week, Indonesia's jaunty President Sukarno tried to hitch a ride. Standing beneath a canopy in the cultural center of Djokjakarta, Sukarno told a wildly cheering crowd of 100,000 to prepare "for the coming general mobilization of all the Indonesian people soon to liberate West Irian from the claws of Dutch imperialism. My brothers, this is my command...