WORLD POLICE FORCE
Sir,—Does not your comment on the world police force ignore the possibility (and surely it must be classed as such if we are to hope for peace at all) of a general reduction in national arms? Given that pre-requisite a United Nations force of 2,000,000 or less assumes different proportions. The "veto” power is admittedly a fatal defect in world peace organisation; and people who really want peace above national self-advancement have often pointed out how illogical and morally indefensible that power is. Unless we can hope that the Great Powers will allow even a vital issue to be considered and settled by international justice, and. such a settlement to be put into effect, then there is no hope. The world police force fits in with a genuine desire for peace by the major nations (I think the Charter calls us “peace loving”). Without that desire it becomes, like the old league, a laughing-stock.—Yours, etc., JONAH. May 7, 1947.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25178, 8 May 1947, Page 5
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