BIGGER ROLE FOR THE UN

To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

President Eisenhower, in his report on the Middle East crisis Wednesday night, proclaimed this stand in favor of the United Nations:

"...I am ever more deeply convinced that the United Nations represents the soundest hope for peace in the world. For this very reason I believe that the processes of the United Nations need further to be developed and strengthened. I speak particularly of increasing its ability to secure justice under international law."

The President has always placed a great deal of faith in the United Nations believing that body is the logical and necessary instrument to bring about world peace. Now the United States is calling for action from the United Nations to furnish an answer to the Middle-Eastern crisis. This answer involves the decision on the nature of the conflict in Egypt. When the United Nations will have reached that decision, she should be able to enforce it through law, and through a police force to reinforce the law, if necessary.

But in order to gain that action, we must have full co-operation from all the nations of the world. This co-operation depends upon the willingness of nations to relinquish certain prerogatives of action to a supra-national body, the United Nations, in the case of international conflicts. The nations must submit to a single code of action under law. This law, furthermore, must be enforceable under a world police force. Only under such a system can the United Nations assure the world's people that they may enjoy peace under adequate protection. C. Michael Lanphier 58,   Vice-President,   Harvard World Federalists.