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A FAILURE?
*By The_Right Honourable
HECTOR MCNEIL,
Minister of State
TO one unfortunately can The Atomic Energy Commission has less of the pressure of world opinion Nutions by Its operations the Security Council that its work is displayed in the Council and in
should
be suspended, at the Assembly.
There still are great:
great nations whose has measured up to the expecta
The work of the other two bodies representatives are not afraid to tions entertained for it when is, for, the moment, sul continuing maintain that there must be a dealings. the Charter was signed at Ban but in neither of them has agred morality in international Francisco
three
years ago mont been reached on the broad And there are few individuals, even which should ..... govern those subjected to the Insidious and This does not mean that the principles
their recommendations. it is not degrading forces of propaganda, in United Nations has been value the machinery that is here at fault; whom a reciprocating conscience is leas. Far from it. At the it is the fact that there are funda- not sometimes stirring. functional and the undramatic niental diversities of views between- lovel much work has been done; the nations concerned, and even on the political and UNEASY PERIOD dramatic level substantial and valuable work has been under HAT use then can the United No- taken on such subjects ha W
tions be during this uneasy period Greece, Korea, Indonesia, Kash when political agreement is absent?
should conclude that the United Na tions is of no use in theso cumstances. The
N suggest that the United in fact put in najority report, to and oven of world conscience, as it
ing these But apart from providing forums in which the East and West their respective state, in public points of viewe, there is still and other way in which the Charter can be employed, and is being em- ployed, to bultress world peace
dig during this melancholy and ́turbing period in
in which major poli-
eir- in which, therefore, tension con- work of the tinues to be high. Regionalism is, Economic and Social Council, and of of course, the tendency to which I the specialised agencies, such as the refer.. International Labour Organisation.
mir and Palestine. But none of No one, even the most pessimistic, ical questions, remain unsettled and
this brings us remotely, near the optimistic and noble ex- pectations which lived at San Francisco at the signing of the Charter.
war era
the Food and Agriculture Organisa- 2
REGIONALISM
of the
Hector McNell was born in 1915 and educated at Woodsido School, Glasgow, and. Glasgow University. An able debater, he represented British Universities debating debat
P. J.
HOW WE SNATCHED BACK OUR SPIES'
By Basil Cardew
THIRTY-NINE-YEAR-OLD
Nor-
man Tintoul few Into London' Airport the other night from Now York with a top war secret that can be disclosed now
Rintoul is the expert of the man- match operation from ground to aircraft. He` flies a 'Stinson" mono-, plane at 30 feet from the ground and snatches a human guinea plɛ into his cockpit,
He told me how. Die secrot device was used. He said: "Special agents were dropped by parachute from
Into R.A.F. planes. Newfoundland,
pecupied territory during the war. They did their job. Some were caught. But many more were rescued after only a night or two in enemy
They were territory. brought back by the human snatch..
Canada and the United States. From 10131-33 Mr MoNell was b From Journalist, and, he was- magis«" irate of Glastow and served on the Corporation of Glasgow 1932-38. He has been. Parliam mentary Private Secretary
Fare Noel Haker And was Hamontary Secretary to Minis- iry of. War Transport 1942-45, Before becoming Biinister of Blate, he wa Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs. In has been Labour MP for Greenock aince 1941.
功
they
They were caught up by aircraft on the ground. They had sat
job.
to be trained in the
The
plane
flew above them with 黥 12ft. pole
extended from the fuselage. At the end of the pole a hook grasped ropes from the agent's flying kit. The ropos were strung out on a set-up like football posts. The man was then hauled aboard and rescued."
Throughout the war Tintoul work- od ed at Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, getting the human snatch method fool-proof, and the R.A.F. (and later the U.S.A.A.F.) used it to bring agents and home scores of secret sples.
As far as we know the enemy never learned the secret. Certainly it may be a comparable design no rendezvous botween pilot and emerging in the Asiatic world.
is blocked, then we must expect an extension of these regional associa- tions in not only the Western world hut probably in the Middle East, and
auto-
In
It is not dimcult to understand, tion, and the World Health Organi why these hopes have been so badly sation, has substantial significance.
I for one do not regard this type pick-up was over missed: But even at the level of the AS for as I can see, there is nothing of collective agreement as an un- shaken. As Mr Marshall pointed
whatever to prevent the healthy phenomenon,
menon, although it is out, three assumptions were made sembly and of the Security Council, principle of "collective defence." true that it is less healthy than when the structure of the Charter
where failure is most dramatically
which is recognised in Article 51, workable world system in which oll of the United Nations was designed. displayed, it is unintelligent to con- from being taken by any association the Great Powers
agree to Co- They were that the Great
clude that the United Nations is of of staten as the basis for their. re- operate.
glonat arrangements. would agree upon peace settlements no account. So.lang. Indeed, as the
No one in the democracies should quickly; that the critical economic United Nations, both in the Council.
1. can see no reason why anyone allow himself to be alarmed by the and political conditia of the post and in the Assembly, provides G
speedily forum where all probe attitude of alliances are
should object to the Soviet Union talk of the likelihood of war. Thero would be
¡ean-be concluding alliances provided such is nowhere in democracies an ap liquidated, and that wartime codebaled and where the operation of the Great Powers would each nation on any particular issue in character, operated in conformity a lack of such appetite any nation exclusively defensive petite for war, but because there is be continued Into peace.
can bo clearly discerned, theso organs full; not only a useful but, with the principles of Articles of with aggressive designs has
United Nations
Interest and matically a vested STAGE ONE
even an indispensable function. With d
so that they may eventually fomenting such se lightning conductors, the be
desi corporated in
fears out these
and auch a system
rumours. The democratic
peoples collective security. NONE of these assumptions have clashes of the 517 stems of the world-wide
In their anxiety to avoid War the peace settlements, and that a house of pence.
been justified. 'Only one stage in East and West mir will produce.Of course, it is also reasonable prone to make concessions is the
a spark to wreek or half-built
that
the Soviet Union should not believe that war is n
is a probability. minor one, has been taken.
to thy other nation or nations object to
There is therefore an obligation. world concluding *FULL* Japan Germany and
Further, the awält
peace.
alliances if comparable
each end of us, toward which upon based treaties, and no one can pratend opinion reflect the meetings they
upon the
same the Association of the that cliber of these look imminent must never be nected. It is, of principles,
tions can contribut Although economic conditions have course, to over-vue, the weight The Treaty of. Brussels algaed in scotch
ameliorated in the sense cularly when there still are such this regionalism, for which we lake deserves the abusive term wor
and
force of such, opinion, parli March of this year is an example of not such rumour and Yo acute dislocation has been ended, acute hunger, and acute disease are large areas where, the press is con- full responsibility. It is exclusively monger, but to rebuke also those
in many parts of the world, trolled and where there is no free and completely defensive.
nows. Nevertheless, no In Europe and in Asia, flow of
As long as the movement toward attempt to persuade the and political
cal conditions-government, not even the most au- world-wide collective security, for people that there are - Warmongers Co-operation of thoritarian, can be completely care which all the democracies are ready, where no such warmongers exist: are, still
sill critical the Great Powers at any major lovel
SAYS
•
18 almost unknown.
It will therefore be plain that in these circumstances no international
organisation could be expected ex-
"work. peditiously to
Some people) the inclusion of Article against the 27 which conferred the vote upon The Great Fowers in the Charter of the United Nations, and trace the comparative fallure in International co-operation to this Article. This, of course, is to mistake the symptom for the disease. If there had been present anxiety among all the Pawers to co-operate, the vote would have Eeen no impediment. Lacking such co-operation the use of the vote s only the symbol of disagreement.
Others again, Irtstrafed and un- easy, complain that in the absence of world federation all that remains for us is to prepare for the next world Both these approaches
War are fundamentally based upon an Idealistic approach to foreign affairs, which is as irrelevant at the opera tional level of international or ganisation today as it has been re- peatedly proved irrelevant In the past..
THE EXCEPTION :
that
foo
NG NA. to 10 to rebuke
the occasional, person who
common
THE TAKE-OFF...BACKWARDS STRAPPED into ́especial shock-reducing harness, hips bent, kneos bent, the spy" faced the approdching rescue plane, was dragged backwards of the ground, Once clear, the pilote assistant, hauled him on board by a cinch!
who constantly and systematically OWLS FOUND
AT SEA
THE MAN THE SOCIALISTS EXPELLED,
I'm glad to be
out of it
T is a great relief to me to and myself outside the Socialist Party after 17 years inside it. They have ex- polled me for saying what I think about the folly of any more nationalisation; and now I feel like a man released from captivity.
.*.
Some
own
by:
ALFRED EDWARDS
MP for East Middlesbrough
There is no trick.
liver the goods. Well, experience shows that they were wrong,
I believe in learning from ex- perience. That is why the Socialist Party has expelled me..
I say and all the facts are with me-that we had better stop pa- tionalising until we have found out how to mako-nationalisation""" work. In particular, I say Hands Off Steel -free enterprise
which 1.3
breaking all recorde for output.
Now
there are plenty of sensible Socialists who agree with rac Her-
bort Morrison.knows all this as well
"ESPECTING – EGGS
-Ong of the snowy owls
no dodge, as I do; and he went as far as ho BECAUSE they are rather
Dunsociable birds, slow to make friends. even with others of their species, owls are not easy to pair.
however, London Zoo keepers, have lately paired two ot, the hand- somest birds in the collection-two snowy owls from the Aretle.
no planner's magle, that will keep dared toward saying so when ho For the Socialists have become us alive on this island, We have spoke at Scarborough. In fact, If a party of captives. Some of got to produce more goods; and we Herbert is not careful he will soon them are willing captives,
have got to produce them at prices be joining me outside the door. [nre · not, ; But, they are all
'BEVAN, DALTON - cap-to suit the customers. lives--the captives of their
SHUT THEIR EYES. phrases and slogans, of the blood-Now free enterprise capitalism, in
The reckless rhetoricians, stirring rhetoric that they used in spite of his follan is to succeed course, will go on yelling, nation-sea in two birds' were, "fount
all faults, did deliver
They say they have' a 'caught, the other on the steamer
HAVE ENDED
the
sort to war for
Our failures,
exception and not the generality, and fecis as though Karl
It talks
te the
ot
those
I have referred
alisation.
at
оп tho steamer Fort
snowy
captivity,"
Mr
This week's record
Proved cor-Bociallan is not a party of car under nailonalisation. It is 2.00 tons, job for which he reluctantly accepts |
{ recf, are most stated by from waders any more.
our £6,000 a year. against. 58
in
this sharing it, may be argued that it will be a distressingly long time before the United Nations does begin to work at its highest levels. Unless they can break out. of their it must do better than free enter-
That is the test by which majority for it. A parliamentary Perhaps, this is go. I make no pre-captivity they will be wiped off the prise.
do majority, I know, can we must
that nationalisation;
any Waverley Park judeo dictions. We must. aether biind map at the next election
If it likes it can commit and no other. What do we find? thing.
"We are hoping for eggs next ourselves to this unfortunato pos CRUSADE DAYS
suleide, But nobody is compelled month," said a Zoo official "It wil Well, take coal In 1938, under sibility nor to the fact that history
to commit suicide.
be interesting to shows again
free enterprise, we got win and again
see if these aro. much
Mr Aneurin Bevan and Mr Hugh fertile, since there are few instances The trouble with the Socialist coal that we could export 35 mil Dalton, those ambitious men, will go of even most refractory political problems movement is that it refuses to tons of the stuff,
Last year,
under
their
owls breeding aro eventually oud that remove.
on shutting their eyes and and thinks nationalisation, we exported one solution le
But I wish facts. It were an million tons. In 1938, under tree care to the Opposition. But
Marx is
is enterprise, output per manshift in Bevan would stop sowing his wild And Kele to which dead-ho died in 1883.
leeks and begin to behave like a the mines was 3.00 tons, Today,
statesmen. That, after all, is the Hardle is dead--he died in 1915.
Yet today we cut 74 percent of It is the coal by machinery Council free crusa the operation of the
Government. It must put and the subsidiary organs,
Sir Charles away percent in 1938. the invective and it
must face Atomic Energy Commission,
the Reid said just before he quitted the left the Treasury he
deeper into In Love With Love" in the Alm Cominission
Now Coal Board recently: "It does not lapsing deeper and and Convention of facts of life.
The Boys From Syracuse." Now the facts
Ho seems to have of our Armaments, and
and tho Military Staff
national seem to matter what we do output demagoguery. life are simple, and stark, On the per man is not rising." Committee. I have alluded to the
as his own the maxim of Frank Sinatra has made a grand re- partial successEs
Security, little island of Great Britain
the American who said "Modesty cord of it. For his second song, he there NATIONALISATION
has of the
chosen Harry Jacobsen's "My part which scarcely ever ihn are 60.000.000 of us.
We keep a
is o great virtue but I and I get Love For You," which I remember DOES NOT WORK shop. We live by making goods to
on botter without it." 4 unanimous will to com
to
Nationalisation may be emotional-
interested am not although I ́immodestly takaj sell in, the shop
overseas our
rical road to pleasure in here saying the Great customers at prices to suit not curly right. If you advocate. it you
selves but our customers.
can make plenty of stirring speeches cannot speak my mind Britain has never once so far used a good.our saying that wo about taking the, profit-motive: out Socialist Party I will do Its veta,
But the fact side. I will ight East Middlesbers are The work of the subsidiary organs will keep the shop open for no more of industry and so on.
week, and that is that nationalisation does not brough at the next election an display the same melancholy lack of than 35 hours a
It does not produce better Independent; and
and I have no co-operation. The two Commissions we will take as much as wo like out work.
It that the workers of Middlesbrough
· free enterprise. and the Military Staff Committee of the till, and that if the customers results than
Socialista (who are not fools) will go produces worse results. have all now been working for don't care for this
They won't go there. But used to belleve (before they tried me. Come rain, come Blood, approximately two years, and in all to hell.
it) that. nationalisation would de- Morgan Phillips.
the
of them' agreement has eluded us. we will
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