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The Right Honourable
Louis St. Laurent, Cana-
dian Minister for External
Affairs, addressing dele-
gates of the United Nations
at the General Assembly in
Flushing Meadows, New
York.
M. Louis Saint-Laurent,
ministre des Affaires Exté-
rieures du Canada, parle
aux déléguées des Nations
Unies à l’Assemblée géné-
rale de Flushing. Meadows,
près de New-York.
The United Nations Meet Again
“The Prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel dined with me, and I asked them how they dared so roundly
Lo assert that God spake to them; and whether they did not think at the time they would be misunder-
stood, and so be the cause of imposition.
‘*Tsatah answer’d: ‘I saw no God, nor heard any, in a finite original perception; but my senses
discovered the finite in everything, and as I was then persuaded, and remain confirm’d, that the
voice of honest indignation is the voice of God, I cared not for consequences, but wrote.’
“Then I asked: ‘Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?’
‘““He replied: “All Poets believe that it does, and in ages of imagination, this firm persuasion
removed mountains; but many are not capable of a firm persuasion of anything!’ ”
WILLIAM BLAKE — The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.
Sixty-seven years ago a Canadian, Henry Wadsworth Monk, coined the
phrase “United Nations”. A friend of John Ruskin and of the artist Holman
Hunt, Monk was a pioneer in the search for a solution to the problem of
world peace. To him the industrial and scientific revolution presented a
terrible future should mankind decide to use the products of its new-found
ingenuity for warlike purposes, rather than for peace. Before his death in
1896, Monk could look back at a lifetime spent in the furtherance of his dream
and at the effects, however small, of his work in Canadian legislation towards
international justice and understanding.
Could Monk have looked forward to today he would have seen the culmina-
tion in his dream of a world court, a security council of the great powers, an
assembly of the lesser powers and an armed force to supress aggressors — the
United Nations Organization. But would he have been pleased with what he
saw? Would he not have seen the suspicions, the motives, the sovereignties
surmounting the wishes of humanity? It is not enough, he would have
remarked, to provide the machinery.
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