Dumbarton Oaks Plan Needs Amendments
Dumbarton Oaks Plan Needs Amendments THE American Committee for a Democratic World, beaded by Professor Robert If. Marlver of Columbia University, baa drafted a aeries of pro* posals for tha...
...Tha only secure basis of mating peace ia a world of cooperating nations, equally bound by a common law to which they equally subscribe...
...Whether the forthcoming agreements can command tha indispensable adherence of the common people of this earth will depend on the evidence given of sincere dedication to justic* and pane...
...Marlver of Columbia University, baa drafted a aeries of pro* posals for tha amendment of th* Dumbarton Oaks plan for world security...
...It should be the strong foundation of the whole world system and should have power to lay down general rules for the conduct of international relations...
...Nothing could be more illusory and fleeting than a pane* built only on the power and profit considerations of state councilors...
...men 358,000 Peasants__816,000 The above list of victims of Soviet purge* ia 1924 appeared in Aftermath, by Winston Churchill...
...6. All colonial peoplei, without considerstion of color or race, who are animated by a consciousness of their nationality and desirous of national autonomy, should be assured of their right to independence within the framework of regional and world-wide federation, and it should be a function of the international organisation to give thorn aid and guidance toward the attainment of this right 7. All countri** should enter upon a program of general disarmament...
...It will bo at the mercy of the jealousies and slimsJiin of these powers...
...Theodore Walser Robert M. Maelver Virginia Williams B. F. MeLanrin Pearl Willen Nathaniel Mink..IT Bertram D. Wolfe • ¦ * • R*ad*ra of Tbb New Leader are urged to writ* Tha American Committee far « Democratic World, 112 fia.f lBth St., New York 3, and authorize the addition of their tignatur** ta this statement Coast Who iVrwfo Tmh • A certain political leader wrote a book soma year* ago, in which be gave the following figure* en th* number of people murdered aa tha result of purges in Soviet Rossis ia 1934: Greek-Orthodox bishops ,. 28 Greek-Orthodox clergymen...
...Certain test* af the coed intaartions of th* statsasn— at San Franeiaee are bar* suggested, by which th* world may know whether ft can have justifiable hope, in spite of the pride and greed of men, that th* coming world organisation will fulfill tha hop** placed in it...
...Let us raise in these days a Standard to which all man of god will can repair 1 Beltevmg that th* greatest service the citisca can at this time render fat the cause of world security and rebuilding is to support a constructive and not merely acquiescent public opinion on the program of Dumbarton Oaks, presently to be taken op by the San Francisco Conference, tha undersigned put forward tha fallowing propositions: 1. The Anembly of tha Nations should be open for all nations...
...4. No nation should be above the law, and no nation should be permitted to be judge, or to prevent judgment in it* own case, whether in the Security Council or before an International Court The voting formula agreed to at Yalta does not conform to this principle...
...There is danger that wo may set up a mar* power mechanism, without moral sinews, without cooperative purpose, without vision into tha future, without th* prophetic passion to stir th* hearts of men...
...6,000 Physicians _ 9,000 Landowner* ___________________ 12,000 Army officer...
...Declaring that "tha hopes of all man for a lasting peace will re*t on an uneasy alliance of three great power*," tha «t*t*ment stressed th* fact that "no plan for a world organisation, however perfectly conceived, ran **nr* enduring peace if its purpose ia to frees* the status quo nod perpetuate existing injustices and errors...
...no international police force can be aafely set up in a world of competitively armed nations...
...1,219 Professor* and teachers...
...The Great Power* should not place any barrier* in the way of those nations which may desire to remove their disabilities or strengthen their economic position through a federal form of organization...
...Morris Rubin Rsbbi Robert Cordis Geerg* Schuyler Rabbi Sidney Goldstein Gsorg* Shuster Sidney Hook Norman Thomas John LaFarge, S.J...
...Only so can there be the authority of law and not merely the sanction of power...
...Charter...
...The statement follows: » • • As in war, so in peace, the abiding strength of nation* lies in the hearts of man and women...
...Philadelphia I.L.O...
...Plans for world collaboration which foil to arouse th* confidence and loyalty of the peoples are doomed to collapse of their own weight Stirred to the depths by the ex per iences and sufferings of tha past years, th* peoples of all tha world hat* asked their leaders to establish a world system which can abolish the scourge of war and provide th* opportunities through which all human persons, without distinction of any kind, can "pursue their national well being and their spiritual development in conditions of freedom and dignity...
...Wa hold that unless these propositions are writtm into the charter of world organisation tha hope* of all men for • lusting panes will rest on the uneasy alliance of three groat power...
...Carolina Uria S. M. Levitaa Oswald Garrison Villsrd Marx Lewis Rev...
...It should have th* overall authority to review and revise any decisions made by the Peace Settlement 3. A Bill af RighU, setting forth the essential liberties of men and groups and nations, should be incorporated in the charter of the world organisation...
...Millions look with hope to San Francisco...
...2. The A Memory should be mora than merely an advisory body...
...Roger Baldwin Broadua Mitchell H. L. Bins** Felix Moriey .'ohn L. Child* Listen M. Oak John F. Finerty A. Philip Randolph Harry Fleischman Victor G. Reuther Robert A. Graham...
...Sue* an alliance is already viewed with suspicion and resentment by tha smaller nationa and tha colonial people...
...Out of the conscience* of all of us, there ariaas a heartfelt desire for a better world and bettor men...
...Certain features of the Dumbarton Oaks proposals are likely to jeopardise the heavy investment of human values that have gone into victory...
...The distinction between peace loving nations and the rest should be abandoned a* being un-historical and divisive...
...8. The constitution of the world organization should be subject to amendment by a vote of two-thirds of the members of the Assembly and such amendment should not be *ubject to a veto right vested in a few Great Powers...
...64,000 Policemen ____________________ 70,000 Workingmen _ 193,000 Soldiers 260,000 Profession...
...and the Assembly of all nations should be made tha custodian of these essential liberties...
...It will be unable to withstand the conflicts of power politics and the crises they bread...
...There is danger that at this last moment wo may forget the high resolves conceived in the dark night of war and the agony of tha helpless and innocent...
...6. Regional federation!, economic and political, should b* encouraged, not discouraged...
...No plan for a world organization, however perfectly conceived, can ensure enduring peace if its purpose is to freeze tha status quo, and perpetuate existing injustice* end errors...
Vol. 28 • April 1945 • No. 16
