KEEPING PEACE

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21923, 18 January 1946, Page 3

KEEPING PEACE

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NORWAY’S PLEDGE

FASCISM STILL ALIVE v

LONDON, Jan. 15.

The German invasion dispelled the idea that a nation could keep out of war by remaining neutral, declared the Norwegian Prime Minister, M. Trygve Lie, speaking in the debate in the Assembly on the United Nations’ Preparatory Commission’s report. M Lie, who was Russia's unsuccessful nominee for the presidency of the* Assembly, received a special ovation when he ascended the rostrum. He said that participation in the United Nations would be Norway's future foreign policy.

“The Norwegian delegation wholeheartedly shares the opinion that peace is one and indivisible,” he said. “No useful purpose can be hoped for unless we realise that fact. That is why those who really wish to further the cause of world peace should be well advised not to try to find signs of Power politics where they do not exist. They should not try to divide the world into separate blocs when all the constructive forces are working together for the common welfare of mankind.”

Great Powers’ Responsibilties

Urging that the delegates should face the fact that certain major territorial problems, mainly those connected with the peace treaties, would have tb be dealt with by other means than through the United Nations, M. Lie said the Great Powers had responsibilities far greater than the remainder. It was their duty to work out fair and just settlements of these problems which could not be dealt with by the Assembly.

M. Lie issued a warning that Nazism and Fascism were still alive, poisoning, the minds of many human beings. He > said one of the most important tasks of'. the United Nations would be to rid the world of the system.

“Fascism, with its bestiality and inhumanity. must be obliterated,” said M. Rzymowski, Poland. “We have known it with its Maideneks and its Belsens. We walk on the ruins of Warsaw under which our brothers and sisters are buried.

“■Your dead rest in quiet. Your sons fell on the battlefields. Ours went shorn of their most cherished treasure —human dignity. Death was delivery from martyrdom. The Nazis killed men like beasts because they fought like heroes. Fascism Still Bides Time “Let us not forget that Fascism is not yet dead. It lives lurking in postwar nationalism and racialism in dark corners, in cartels and trusts. It bides its time, waiting for an opportunity.” ' M. Rzymowski sounded a warning against the rebirth of the evil influence of vested capitalist interests in national policies that happened after the last war Germany was helped in the reconstruction of her heavy industries which financed the Nazi movement. “Let us not repeat the blunders of the past,” he said. “Let us remove the possibility of the rebirth of German imperialism.” Dr. Lucio Quintana pledged Argentina to full support of the Charter. Ha described his country as now and always profoundly democratic. Argentina would do her utmost as a leading food exporter to implement the decisions regarding food. Argentina had confidence in the final success of the organisation. She could claim to have contributed largely toward the formulation of the principles on which international relations were based. Senor Carlos Restrepo, Colombia, said the abolition of unemployment and the raising of the standard of. living for all was one of the most important tasks which the Social and Economic Committee would have to tackle. They must not return to the old days of cut-throat competition for the consumers’ market. They, in ensuring full employment, must see that the worker received a standard of payment which compensated for labour. Work for all must not mean slavery as it had meant m soma countries in the past. Example in Leadership

Salvador’s spokesman, Dr. Gustava Geurrero, speaking on behalf of Guatemala, Honduras, Panama and Nicaragua, declared that they were prepared to give their all to make the United Nations’ Organisation a success. Senor Rosenweig Diaz, Mexico, said there was still great anxiety in tha minds of the people. The great inventions in the nineteenth century fell into the hands of communities insufficiently morally developed to accept them. Britain, France, America, Russia and China should not be known as great Powers buT great nations, and should be regarded on the basis of the example they set. Mr. P. Fraser was the centre of a large and animated group of journalists, mostly American, in the lobby alier the Assembly’s luncheon adjournment, when he had a quarter of an hour’s private discussion, mainly concerning trusteeship questions. The British Ambassador to Russia, Sir Archibald Clark-Kerr, has arrived in London from Moscow. The Press Association says that he will be available for any consultations that may be necessary by the proceedings of the United Nations’ Assembly