Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 November 1945 — Page 22

the People Will Find Their Own Way

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FOR UNO CONTROL OF THE BOMB

THE Anglo-American-Canadian plan for atomic energy control will not please those who think turning the "bomb over to Russia would solve all problems. It will "offend opposite extremists, who insist we should hold on to what we have regardless of others. It recognizes that international control is essential, but insists that the United Nations organization be strengthened and the full cooperation of other powers be assured first. That is the position The Times has taken from the beginning. - The issue is survival Everyone now knows that atomic weapons can wipe out an entire nation, and quickly. Civilization can be blown into nothingness. The universal cry is for protection against this terrible thing. But there is no sure security. If there is war, no conceivable military device or diplomatic agreement can I guarantee against atomic destruction. -War itself must E be prevented, or else. | President Truman and. Prime Minister Attlee and MacKenzie King state that stark fact so all can hear and "heed: “We are aware that the only complete protection for the civilized world from the destructive use of scientific knowledge lies in the prevention of war. No system of safeguards that can be devised will of itself provide an effective guarantee against production of atomic weapons by a nation bent on aggression.”

Ts . - = 8 . » HEREFORE the only hope is in the strongest possible international organization to preserve peace. To such an organization must be entrusted the ultimate _responsibility of policing the use of atomic energy. The UNO is a start in that direction. But, conceived in another world of the pre-atomic age, it is far too feeble. It has few of _ the powers required for the policing job. It must be given’

be suicidal. No graver error could be made by Americans than to mistake an ineffective international organization for the real thing when this weapon is involved. The United States, Britain and Canada .have now declared their willingness to consolidate and extend UNO authority “on a reciprocal basis,” and have invited the other nations to join them in this effort. "They propose the prompt creation of a UNO commis- ~ gion to make recommendations for step-by-step progress, beginning with exchange of scientific knowledge for peace-

of atomic weapons. This plan is reasonable. It is fair, It is practicable. Though not .an absolute guarantee—for none is possible— it is the world’s best hope. Any government which sabotages the extension of UNO powers to enforce peace and to prevent misuse of atorhic energy will stand self-con-

TRUMAN'S PALESTINE BLUNDER PRESIDENT. TRUMAN and Secretary of State Byrnes

for a joint Anglo-American commission of inquiry on the Jewish and Palestinian questions. The Jews object. The Arabs object. And Americans should protest most vigorously. : : hi Jews say this is another British stall in a long list of delays.

in time, when the hunger and cold and disease of are already closing in upon them. : ei Too many Jews have died while past “inquiries” dragged out to inconclusive and. ignored recommendations. ~The Jewish remnant of ‘Europe—less than a million and a half of six million left after Nazi butchery—has been almost investigated to death, The British decision that Palestine

posed 100,000 as an emergency total-is a gruesome jest. For the United States to underwrite this British decision even left-handedly, as it has now done by becoming a party to a delaying device, is shameful, = o fd ge eo. .n =» s = =» : THIS commission of inquiry dodge is no more a solution of the basic Palestinian question than of the separate emergency relief problem; All that does is to shift much responsibility from .the London government to the Wash- . ington government for one of the most difficult problems in all world affairs without committing Britain to anything definite. - ov President Truman has put the United States in the unpardonable position of accepting responsibility without authority, That would be stupid in any situation, In this case it is exceedingly dangerous. We have no control over the acts of British officials in Palestine, none over the violence and bloodshed which is threatened by extremists in that explosive land. But now we shall be blamed and

held jointly responsible. . "This newspaper has no pet panacea for the Palestinian problem, simple or otherwise. Certainly there-is no solu-' tion equally acceptable to Jewish and -Arab extremists on the one hand, and to British imperialists and Russian expansionists on the other. as wt sn ss 8» BUT ONE thing at least is obvious. It is a problem 80 many peoples, races and religions, so many

ful ends and leading up to effective international control

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