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...conflict been merely that of two empires, the methods of power politics might have sufficed, even though Britain was no longer the world's greatest power. But a conflict of principle called for a forum above the level of "absolute sovereignty." To him, that forum was UNO...
...socialism do not contradict each other. His early poverty had led him to prize economic security above economic opportunity. Britain's waning power after two wars persuaded Bevin and his countrymen that sovereignty must be bent to fit a pattern of world order. They knew also that UNO could not be built on a foundation of immoral compromises with expediency. As Britain's ancient strength declined, its ancient principles must take, at least in part, the place of power...
...last week's UNO Security Council wrangle over Greece, Polish Delegate Zygmunt Modzelewski fluttered his hearers by siding with Britain. Correspondents pricked up their ears. Was he really deviating from the Russian line...
...which Russian truculence reached new depths (see FOREIGN NEWS) also heard Russia's Andrei Vishinsky make an unprecedented advance toward world cooperation. Prosecutor Vishinsky was denouncing Britain, but he is too shrewd a man to ignore the application of his words to the U.S.S.R. Said he to UNO's Security Council: "I would ask whether the United Nations can be an effective organ if national sovereignty is not limited. The nations must sacrifice a part of their sovereignty if the United Nations is to be a real and effective organ...
Heretofore Russia has avoided such a stand like the plague; now Russia was on the record with a statement that undercut her super-sovereign interpretation of her UNO Security Council veto power...