MISSED OPPORTUNITIES
CHAMBERLIN, WILLIAM HENRY
Where the News EndS Missed Opportunities By William Henry Chambtrlin MOST AMERICANS in responsible positions dealing with foreign affairs presumably know there is a cold war on. But one...
...We shall never win true vital struggle by watting for things to happen, i We mutt mike things happen...
...We suspect that News reporters are assiduously probing the old Forum's ruins for a copy of a typical Caesarian budget...
...For a period of years the United States, together with the majority of member states of the UN, has been voting for the admission to that organization of Eire, Italy and several other states...
...Acquitted after a trial so sensational that it displaced mass rape from the front pages, Sander—or his case—then came up before a jury of his professional peers: the New Hampshire Medical Society...
...One is in the matter of branding the Soviet Union as the greatest slave state in history...
...Sander any further...
...Of course, this method will yield no good results...
...Now Henry departs from his hybrid barley To urge upon us a ceaseless parley...
...The known existence of large-scale slavery in the Soviet Union is one of the best propaganda weapons the Western powers •possess...
...expulsion of Nationalist China from the organisation...
...For Instance from suddenly-felt devotion...
...But one sometimes wonders whether there is a sufficient sense of urgency, a keen enough eye for opportunities to win local victories when occasions present themselves...
...Sander is a member...
...Thanks largely to the untiring exertions of the AFL, very ably represented before the Economic and Social Council of the UN by Toni Sender, this subject has been fully aired...
...A blackmailer always comes again...
...But when the New York Daily News compares Harry Truman with Caligula, Nero and Louis XIV all in one editorial, we say that's giving GOP speakers more history than they can chew—from what we gather, they are having a hard enough time digesting the news of the past two decades...
...Any self-respecting government certain of its innocence would not only have permitted, but demanded, a prompt and free investigation of the monstrous charge of enslaving many millions of human beings...
...Suspicion Is Rife that Senate bourbons are operating a quiet filibuster—via cloakroom and committee deals^-to keep a House measure favoring statehood for Hawaii and Alaska bottled up in verbal alcohol...
...No chance to strike a blew should be overlooked...
...Just recently Miss Sender laid before the Council photostatic copies of secret documents obtained from informants in the Gosplan (Soviet State Planning Administration...
...These documents show that the MVD is the biggest employer of labor in the Soviet Union, that it was assigned 14 per cent of appropriations for capital construction, a larger share than any other ministry obtained...
...The United States has never walked out of UN agencies or otherwise taken the attitude that if it couldn't get its way* it wouldn't play ball...
...It appears that some members of America's most exclusive gentlemen's club cannot sleep nights at the prospect of a nut-brown Polynesian paddling into their august presence all the way from Honolulu in an outrigger canoe, or a slant-eyed Eskimo skidding into a committee hearing at the head of a team of huskies and shouting, "Mush...
...Happy digging, Neu>s.' Mercy Is Life and not death, Dr...
...What a Land —Jho opportunity—no incentive—no free enterpriser So complain our businessmen 864- days of the year...
...NOTICE SHOULD HAVE BEEN SERVED that if the Soviet Union and its satellites did not return within a short-specified time limit, UN agencies would function "without them and would proceed to such matters of business as „the admission of new members...
...Their admission has been blockea by the Soviet veto...
...Asks Continuous Parley Until U.S., Soviet Ban Bomb...
...Another deplorable example of a missed opportunity has been the passive acceptance of the Soviet boycott of the United Nations, a boycott designed to force the...
...It should have, had it been an alert guardian of the human rights which are mentioned so often in the UN Charter, set up a permanent factfinding commission to hear and cross-question every person who claimed first-hand knowledge of the Soviet slave labor system...
...This body dismissed the case with the observation that "human beings [are] subject to human errors of judgment," and passed it on down to the Hillsboro County Medical Society, of which Dr...
...What prompted the News to reach out for two Roman foul balls and a French bunt was its discovery that Washington parties are reaching orgiastic proportions...
...Tears well up...
...The Netus was kind enough to list" the cost of an average Capitol soiree at between $5,000 and $15,000, but we regret to report it offered no comparative statistics on Caligula's or Nero's brawls...
...Yet it has been allowed to become rusty from disuse...
...Three-quarters of Soviet gold, forty per cent of Soviet chrome, one-eighth of Soviet timber is produced by slave labor under the conditions of appalling exploitation and inhumanity described by Vladimir Petrov, Jerszy Gliksman and the many other victims of this system who have been released or have escaped...
...American failure to give • stronger lead on these two issues, ^damnation of Soviet slave labor with a maximum of publicity and vigorous counter-action against the blackmailing Soviet boycott, la symptomatic of the tendency to regard the cold war Indifferently...
...The complete work q/ this fact-finding commission, accompanied by abridged summaries in pamphlet form, should then have been published under the authority of the United Nations, translated into every European and and Asiatic language, and given the widest possible circulation...
...It will only prove a point already made, namely, that society intelligently decided not to commit a "mercy killing" itself by punishing Dr...
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...But on the 365th they are strangely silent...
...BeW4^BsnWn4 Ams^Sk^nAen...
...By refusing to permit any such investigation the Soviet Union has pleaded guilty by default...
...The intelligent course would have been to recognize the Soviet action as an opportunity, fiot a calamity...
...Bui tears come else both with and after Feelings of pity, and long, lend laughter...
...Such action Would have regained the Initiative for the free nations and confronted the Soviet rulers with an embarrassing dilemma...
...Small gain may...
...Two conspicuous opportunities were missed in the United Nations, when a stronger American lead might have led to good results...
...BUT WHAT the Economic and Social Council has done is dangerously close to nothing...
...t But the reaction to this Soviet challenge of the very fundamentals of international cooperation has been weak and confused...
...We learned why the other day when General Motors announced that its $656,434,232 in profits last year amounted to a 49 per cent increase over 1049...
...WHAT'S THE RUSH...
...But instead of taking the vigorous, decisive action which the Soviet challenge called for, the tendency of the*UN majority has been to plead and appease, to do nothing that would make it more difficult for the Soviet Union and its satellites to return...
...They would have been obliged either ¦ to quit their familiar "sulking in the tent" pose or to see measures which they could stop with their veto enacted in their absence...
...TALKED RED IN THE PACE Wallace /or Atomic Talk...
...Should the Soviet demand be complied with, it would be possible for the Kremlin to set up a puppet regime in any country that might be plagued with civil disorder and then announce that it would have nothing to do* with, the UN unless this regime were recognized...
...It would be hard to imagine a more arrogant demonstration of Soviet determination to force its minority will on the international organic zation...
...It Is true, from emotion...
...The Czech editor said he was so moved at the tributes to Stalin by ordinary people that "tears of emotion rushed into his eyes...
...An aggressor is never satisfied by a gesture of appeasement...
...however, be presupposed When mouths are open and minds are closed...
...The Soviet Union, by making its cooperation depend on the exclusion of the Government of China, which is still recognized by most of the powers, has placed the UN in an intolerably humiliating position...
...We must seise the initiative not -only in the UN but in many other fields...
...Meek acceptance by the UN of the present Soviet boycott is merely paving the way for new and still more impossible Soviet actions and demands...
...There has been an effort to hush up, to play down, to pretend it isn't so...
...History Is Grand when ydu know how to treat it...
...Newspaper headline...
...Hermann N. Sander has discovered...
Vol. 33 • March 1950 • No. 11
