PLEA FOR CONTINUANCE OF UNITED NATIONS: SOUND IN PRINCIPLE
NEW YORK. June 7 (Recd. 6pm)— No one could pretend that the United Nations at the present time could stop a big Power determined to go to war, said the Canadian External Affairs Minister, Mr L. B. Pearson. The United Nations Organisation was constantly exerting its influence on world affairs, and should be used, so that, even with its limited resources, it could serve the high purpose for which it was founded, added Mr Pearson. It was obvious the United Nations had not fulfilled its primary purpose to guarantee the security of its members, because the objective of universal collective security, which was written into the United Nations Charter, had not corresponded to the realities of the political situation that so quickly emerged from the turbulence of the post-war period "United Nations' difficulties were caused because the U.S.S.R. has objectives different from ours, and because they have methods with which we ar e unfamiliar, ’ he said. Despite this the experiment must be continued because international organisation without all the Great Powers would inevitably b e unreal and impracticable. Mr Pearson added that the Western Powers were operating on an assumption that a divided world could be united without conflict. On e encouraging sign was the mounting evidence that the iron curtain cast its aarkest shadow on those who created it. “Europe's economic needs alone are demonstrating how desperate and unnatural a venture it is to attempt to divide the world into two watertight compartments,'' he said.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 8 June 1949, Page 5
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