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1 United Nations News: Report on the United Nations and Its Related Agencies 1 (1946)

handle is hein.unl/unnews0001 and id is 1 raw text is: United Nations News A Retort on the United Nations Organization and Its Related Agencies Published by the WOODROW WILSON FOUNDATION 45 East 65th Street, New York 21, N. Y. Vol. I, No. 1 January, 1946 Monthly, $2.00 per year This is the first issue of the UNITED NATIONS NEWS: a monthly publication devoted exclusively to news and reports about the meetings of the U.N.O., its functional agen- cies, and other international organizations. It will press no point of view nor suggest legislative action. Its aim is to meet the need for information in compact form about the many international organizations in which we Americans have assumed responsibility. U.N.O. IN THE ATOMIC AGE THE CHARTER of the United Nations Organ- ization (U.N.O.) was signed last June in a world in which no atom bomb had yet ex- ploded. Since the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the one question overshadow- ing all others has been this: How and where shall we look for security from the complete destruction of civilization, and perhaps all life on this planet, which atomic energy has made most dreadfully possible? Since it is apparently a fact that neither the scientific knowledge nor the industrial know- how is, or can be, the monopoly of any na- tion or group of nations, international action has become an absolute necessity - a pre- requisite to the survival of any of us. In regard to the U.N.O. two main questions which the bomb has raised are the following: 1. Shall the control of the bomb be handed over to the U.N.O.? If so, under what agency? One official answer to this was contained in the joint statement issued on November 15 by President Truman, Prime Minister Attlee and Prime Minister Mackenzie King. This statement contained the promise to: share on a reciprocal basis with others of the United Nations detailed information concerning the indus- trial application of atomic energy just as soon as ef- fective enforceable safeguards against its use for destructive purposes can be devised. It also proposed the establishment of a U.N.O. Atomic Commission to draw up rec- ommendations for: a) control of atomic en- ergy; b) elimination from national armaments of atomic weapons; c) inspection and other safeguards against violation; d) exchange of scientific information. 2. Perhaps even more fundamental than the proposals for joint control of the use of the bomb itself is the question of what kind of a world organization is needed, in an atomic age, in order to prevent war. On this point the general trend of thought here and abroad has been that a stronger organization than that provided for at San Francisco is indeed need- ed. Certain groups have urged that the U.N.O. be scrapped and that an entirely new World Government be established. Others have argued that a strong world organization can- not be plucked out of the blue, that it would therefore be more practical to use the U.N.O. at least as a stepping stone, and to strengthen it where possible, for example, by abandon- ment of the veto power of the Big Five over decisions of the Security Council. Meanwhile considerable steady, unspectac- ular progress has taken place in getting the U.N.O. ready to serve as an instrument for world cooperation-as strong an instrument as the individual member nations are willing to make it. Reproduction by Permission of Buffalo & Erie County Public Library Buffalo, NY

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