Federation Now

The U.S.S.R.'s severance of relations with the Polish government-in-exile has spotlighted the inadequacy of the diplomatic strategy of the United Nations, a policy neither explicit nor commanding. Unassuring as to the post-war program of our nation, the policy of the United States has contributed to such inadequacy by failing to establish a central international organization to resolve peacefully disputes so easily magnified into issues for conflict. Senate Resolution 114, sponsored by Senators Ball, Hill, Burton and Hatch, now in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, would go far in remedying our "dry-crust" diplomacy.

The bipartisan resolution, urging the United States to initiate meetings towards the creation of an organization of the United Nations, would bless such an organization with the mechanisms for the peaceful, adjudication of disputes, implemented with "a United Nations military force." If adopted, our Allies would be assured that the United States will not retreat into an inglorious isolation after the war, but will assume its due share of responsibility for the welfare of a post-war world. With the United States participating in an effective system of collective security, Russia's requirements for individual security might be less pressing. A President with the manifest decretals of the treaty-ratifying Senate would have far greater influence in fashioning a rational peace. The present resolution seems best adapted to provide such support, requiring but a simple majority and sped by the clarifying atmosphere of total war.