THE TRUMAN DOCTRINE AND THE UN

...it will not remove the atomic cloud |Mhrring over every home: it will not lift from the •houldcts of humanity the hack-breaking load of the armament race now going on...

...If a firm US policy can stop Russia in Greece and 'I'mkey, then a firm US policy can reform the Unfted Nations and thus stop future aggression in the world...

...President Truman's challenge to the militant expansion, of Communist Russia was regrettably uecesitry...

...J*'or it will place before Soviet Russia an alternative they will understand: either lasting peace lor Russia too, or isolation in a world of peaceful nations militantly and effectively organized against any aggressor...

...Sot the impotent, veto-ridden Inurd ami a strengthened United Nations, so drflM that the democratic world cannot threaten the ipt of Soviet Russia nor could Soviet Russia ¦**¦>»' the security of the democratic world...

...representing labor, business, churches, liberals, and including the American Legion...

...But how much more practical, and how much more noble it would be for our nation to be at last firm in the matter of an international organ!ration capable of slopping the Third World War...

...THKSK leforms must be carried out, under the leadership hi the f niled States, with Russia if possible, without her if necessary...

...That alternative, therefore, ia to atrengtlien ¦•United Nations to the extent necetaary to make f •W" to ad effectively and in time...

...This is the fact that tae Truman doctrine is not the only alternative to our former appeasement policy...

...But it is equally true that the President's policy j* at least a stop-gap...

...And should Russia refuse these indispensable reforms, and demand a* the price of her continued participation the preservation of the present hopelessly paralyzed I ruled Nations, then it ii much better to challenge Russia on the issue of an effective world organization—that would guarantee Russia against aggression as well as ui*r other nation—than on the issue of power-politirt maneuveri in Greece or Turkev...

...This objection is no longer valid alter 1'iesideiil Truman's bold challenge...

...in the cause of Creek or Turkish security, lliev will be infinitely more ready and more enllmsiaslii about defying Russia, if need be, in the cause of hoi Id peace and lasting security for all...

...A«w«Vht Truman admitted that "The United jWtnj j. a, yet unable to act either effectively or p **e...

...In all other mailers the present veto procedure may be retained...

...This policy settles nothing oVfiaite and nothing permanently in the dangerous struggle between the democratic USA and the total ilarian USSR now developing in the atomicallv charged atmosphere of mutual fears...

...Such a policy will not only largely unify the American nation and rally most of the nations of the world around the United Nations, free from taint of imperialism: it will probably also bring Russia, 'after a temporary period of sulking, into the reformed United Nations...

...It will not prevent aay* government of a great state from rearming for aggression with impunity or attacking a divided world with chances of success...

...cl Kslablishment of an effective world police force, to consist ol one International Contingent — an active force made up exclusively of volunteers from the Miiallei nations and controlled by the reformed Security Council and World Court—and five National Contingents from the major powers, operating in reserve and controlled entirely by their respective government...

...hi'Prevention of rearmament for aggression: in the mallei of atomic bombs, by means of the adoption of the Baruch proposal: in the matter of heavy armament, bv means of a world-wile quota limitation of ils production...

...Citizens Committee for United Nations Reform In the great debate now shaping up on President I Truman* historic enunciation of the new I'S foreign policy, there is one consideration which |tat gone almost unmentioned...

...TitlS can be done effectively and now bv means of three specific i el onus of the United Nations—reforms already endorsed in resolutions by many organization...

...The Truman policy is hut 1 weapon of power politics, a weapon which in today's pergencv is necessary hut which, if not replaced Iff belter alternative, must eventually lead to war...

...But lie Truman policy will not avert the eventual Third ¦•rid War...

...In briefest summan, these reforms are: a i hliminatinu of the veto right in two specific matters armed aggression and preparation lor armed aggression (illegal rearmament...

...What «r should offer to Russia is a perpetual niairiage, in which »e make future divorce impossible In means ol the reformed United Nations...

...There is nothing else we Americans could do mder the circumstances—in Greece, in Turkey, and »robablv elsewhere—if we are at least to stop further [expansion of Communist power politics...

...Let ni make tin »'«Mttd Nations'work, ao that if the peace of Greece or Turkev or Germany or China is threatened bv any great power, it will not be necessary for the Tinted Slates to pour in hundreds of millions and inevitably billions and to prepare for a new war...

...We certainly must be firm in the matter of Greece and Turkey...

...If the American people are ready to defy Russia, if need lie...

...What we need, if the world is to he saved, and ipP we need urgently, is an effective and acceptable lltermuive that would smir as an adequate substitute W power politics and thus lastingly preserve peace {M...

...There is lillle fount that this policy will stop the further aggressive expansion of Russia via Greece or Turkey, since Russia as yet is in no position to meet directly the junerii an challenge with her own mailed fist...

...It is the United Nations which is the hope •Tnomanily...

...Such an alternative exists before our "Jf »y...

...Heretofore the principal objection to this obvious alternative has been the leai thai Soi iet Russia would oppose these indispensable reforms or might withdraw, causing the collapse of the I niled Nations...

...h« two great nations who only yesterday PPP allies...