UNITED NATIONS CHARTER; IT SHOULD BE REVIEWED

Wanganui Chronicle, 29 April 1950, Page 5

UNITED NATIONS CHARTER; IT SHOULD BE REVIEWED

Opinion Of United States Adviser On Foreign Policy WASHINGTON, April 27 (Rec. 6 pm).—Air. John Foster Dulles. Republican foreign policy leader, who has been appointed foreign policy adviser to the State Department, tonight urged that it is time to start planning a general conference to review I + ( ‘li fl l't <*!’

the I mte<l Nations ( hart er. “The (’barter and the membership of the United Nations are already dated.” he said, in a speech to the American Society of International Law. “They are dated 1945. Many new national forces have emerged; an atomic age has dawned and the world has not stood still, so the United Nations should not stand still. Attacking isolationist groups Th the United States. Mr. Dulles said that those who would have lhe United States pursue isolationist policies ‘ are. whatever they say. the de facte accomplices of Soviet Communism ir its announced programme of encircling and islolating United States, so that it can be strangled into submission. “We can save freedom for ourselve* only as we engage in a greater effort of saving human freedom everywhere Mr. Dulles said. Events had moved so rapidly that policies which seemed adequate wher they were launched no longer server present needs. Economic and military aid to Europe, while it had acted as ar oxygen tent, had not yet been transformed into a clear cut programme for restoring permanent health ant vige ur. Mr. Dulles said that during recen months an unfortunate combination o: circumstances had produced super ficial disunity in the United State; which raised doubts abroad whethei American national attitudes were de pendable. “American people have shown tha thej do not want to be divisive to ; degree that will increase danger," hi said.