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World Federalists held their first organizational meeting of the year last night in Lowell Junior Common Room and elected permanent officers. Preceding the business meeting, a four-man student panel discussed the implications of the Montreux Declaration of the world movement for world government...
Problems discussed by the panel revolved around the question of the amount of power which should be delegated to a world government. The Montreux Declaration, framed by an international conference last summer called for a world government of very broad powers. Panel speaker David Baumman '51, stated that only a fairly limited world government proposal would be likely to be accepted by the United States...
...full measure of the gravity of this claim lies in the frame of mind that gives the Soviets license to crease treaty obligations at will, or under the flimsiest moral case since the phony Polish invasion of Germany in 1939. Under the Russian logic, the Treaty of Montreux and other of the accords reached following the last war, would be scratched from the books. And the fate of the Dardanelles and the Dodecanese Islands would be transferred from the conference tables of the original signatories to bi-lateral agreements between the Greeks and the Russians, or the Turks...
...Potsdam the Big Three had agreed to some revision of the Montreux Convention which confirmed Turkey as sole guardian of the Dardanelles. But the Russian proposal to share directly in controlling the Straits would reduce Turkey, now allied to Britain and closely attached to U.S. diplomacy, to a satellite of the Soviet Union...
...Potsdam a year ago, the U.S., Britain and Russia promised to submit suggestions for revision of the Montreux Convention (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) so as to give certain privileges to the Black Sea nations, i.e., Russia and her satellites, Bulgaria and Rumania. The Western powers submitted their ideas, but Russia merely continued a press and radio war of nerves -charged that neutral Turkey had aided the Axis, hinted at territorial demands, asked such questions as: if Britain can control Gibraltar and Suez, and the U.S. Panama, why should not Russia control the Dardanelles? Moscow also pointedly failed to renew...