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...seems to believe both is California's William Knowland, who told the Sons of the Revolution in Manhattan last week that it is time "to stop kidding ourselves into believing the United Nations is something it is not." What is it, and what should it be? Next September the U.N. General Assembly must decide whether to call a conference for 1956 or 1957 to review the U.N. Charter. Senator Knowland's remarks are at least timely; they might touch off a discussion of U.N. Charter revision. His criticisms point up both the need for improving...
...Korea, said Knowland, the U.N. "seriously compromised" its moral position. It showed "alacrity to act against a small aggressor [North Korea]" but "procrastination in acting against a large aggressor [Red China]." When Russia supported the aggressors, "no steps were taken to expel the Soviet Union from the United Nations." Russia "in effect defied the United Nations to do anything about it. They did nothing." Although "the terms of the Korean armistice have been violated on numerous occasions," Knowland charged, the U.N. has been "impotent and paralyzed" in enforcement of the armistice...
Though he complains that the U.N. has been too weak, Knowland is fearful lest it become stronger. He fears that the U.S. Constitution might become diluted by participating in an organization some of whose members have no respect for free institutions. Said Knowland: "Lest we be gradually edged into such a world state before we learn too late wherein we have been taken, I believe that every candidate for public office . . . should be asked to give a forthright view on this great public issue. It is later than you think...
Next day at his press conference President Eisenhower was asked for comment on Knowland's alarmed view of the U.N. Said the President: "We do not cease our efforts in research in cancer, nor do we abolish the laboratories in which the research goes on, merely because of lack of success...
...intrinsic to international law based on a concept of justice is the proposition that the nations give up to some degree and in some respects their freedom of future choice. To Senator Knowland and millions of other Americans, such a proposition is likely to sound like the thing they fear most-the yielding of sovereignty. Nevertheless, the U.S. this year needs to reflect upon and discuss such a basic revision of the U.N. The reality of thermonuclear weapons poses the problem of international law in a way that can not be brushed...