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...President went on to explain. He was not in favor of special conferences, he said, and never had been. It was special conferences which wrecked the League of Nations, and he wanted the United Nations Organization to work. Therefore UNO would take over matters previously transacted at Big Three meetings. If UNO works as it should, said the President, there would be no need for any other international conferences. And he thought UNO could take over within 90 days...
...meeting had gone on as recently as six weeks ago, were taken aback. Pundit Walter Lippmann wrote an angry column taking the President to task for another "offhand remark." In a querulous tone he asked whether the President intended to turn over General MacArthurs administration of Japan to the UNO Security Council-an eleven-nation body in which five nations have an unchallengeable veto...
...there was ample evidence that the President had carefully considered his remarks in advance. They were clearly in line with the Truman-Attlee-King atomic bomb statement that UNO, if it is to work, must be entrusted with important matters. There was no indication that the occupation policy in Japan would be changed, in the near future...
Bevin went far beyond this cue, but in doing so he gave UNO its strongest stimulant in many months. Bevin insisted that Britain stood wholeheartedly behind the United Nations Organization and would utilize it-"stretch it to the limit of its capacity from the security point of view." He added: "There must be no weakening of the institutions which were built at San Francisco...
...Constituent Assembly cheered when President de Gaulle outlined his program: in domestic affairs, there will be a speedup of nationalization. First on the list: credit, electric power, insurance. In foreign policy, France stands on her alliance with Russia, seeks similar alliances with her western neighbors, all within the UNO framework...