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...strong piece spoken. Commander Stassen went back to work-on Admiral William F. Halsey's staff in the Pacific...
Delegate Harold Stassen's job at San Francisco was finished. The hefty Minnesotan called on President Truman, reported that he was ready to return to duty as Commander Stassen, U.S.N.R. But for one night last week he was still Citizen Stassen, with a message for other U.S. citizens about the World Security charter. His audience was vast-the NBC network...
Minnesota's Stassen had specific criticisms of the charter's weaknesses, but he insisted that there was room in it for corrections. He also had specific recommendations for making the charter work, for developing "an intelligent, informed, American viewpoint" on major world problems. He urged that the President appoint bipartisan groups to study policy issues...
Said Citizen Stassen: "We in the United States are now thoroughly and almost unanimously agreed that the walls of isolation are gone forever. . . . But we must find in both broad and specific terms what our view is on the problems of world relationship." As a broad-principled base of U.S. policy he proposed twelve points...
...Another Big v. Little row developed when Egypt suggested that the Security Council, in keeping the peace, should act only "in conformity with the principles of justice and international law." Halifax and Harold Stassen pointed out that in stopping disputes the Council was a policeman, not a judge, and that it could not wait to adjudicate rights & wrongs while the brawl went on. Said Stassen : "The people of this world want to establish an organization which, when there is a fight, will say 'Stop fighting...