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In this troubled spirit of today the nations have met again at Lake Success.
The delegates must feel on them not only the eyes of their own people but
those of the world. When this is read, it may well be that we shall know
some of the answers to the world’s ills, answers provided by the co-operative
working of the delegates at the United Nations General Assembly. For the
others, perhaps, no answers are possible at this stage in world history. But
whatever its shortcomings, all nations agree that the hope for peace lies in the
United Nations Organization. There is no alternative. The hope for peace,
and not the record of past accomplishments, must continue to be the Organ-
ization’s principal reason for existence.
Of the forty-three items on the provisional agenda of the second regular
session of the General Assembly, a dozen were of particular interest to the
Canadian delegation because they would have a direct effect upon Canada
or because they were of major international importance. Chief among these
perhaps were the election of the three non-permanent members of the Security
Council, the question of the veto, the discussion of the Palestine Mandate, the
problem of Franco Spain, the treatment of Indians in South Africa, the
children’s emergency fund, the development of international law and possible
economies which might be effected in labour, time and budget within the
Organization.
As the conference got under way
the various issues came up. Canada,
elected to the Security Council, took
her stand on the question of the
veto and generally spoke her mind.
To some Canadians sitting at home
the Canadian delegation said too
much; others thought it did not go
far enough. Listening at their radios
or reading their newspapers, Cana-
dians took an active interest in the
proceedings. The Canadian Broad-
casting Corporation, as at San Fran-
cisco, and last year at New York,
again set up its microphones in the
great general assembly and in the
Burton S. Keirstead, head of the Economics and committee meetings. The CBC’s
Political Science Deparment af, MC Env commentators watched the develop
the English-language transmissions of the CBC ments closely and its transmitters
International Service with commentaries on carried their voices and those of the
Canadian and world affairs. Recently he has 5
reported on United Nations developments direct representatives of many European
from Lake Success and Flushing Meadows. He radio organizations TOU ligtanarg a
is a graduate of Exeter College, Oxford, and of
the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton. home and abroad.
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