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mineral and living resources. The maximum possible area of the sea-bed should be reserved to international jurisdiction.

The United Nations should ensure the development and protection of the oceans as the common heritage of mankind. A substantial portion of the revenues from the exploitation of the resources of the sea-bed should accrue to budgetary and economic development needs of the United Nations. For these purposes it is necessary to specify a form of organization with effective jurisdiction, and to specify its relationship to the other organs of the United Nations system.

15. Relief in International Disasters.—In order to supplement and strengthen the action of the United Nations establishing the post of Disaster Relief Coordinator, and in order to provide a prompt international response in situations arising from catastrophes both natural and man-caused, we proposed setting up under the auspices of the United Nations a Disaster Relief Agency, equipped with materiel and personnel means necessary for rapid and efficient intervention in disaster situations, and for the purpose of co-ordinating the efforts of relevant United Nations agencies, national governments and voluntary groups.

STATEMENT OF WOMEN'S LEAGUE OF CONSERVATIVE JUDAISM

The United Nations has now grown to 138 countries. Lacking sovereign power, it can only accomplish what these member nations are willing to support. Women's League for Conservative Judaism realizes that the survival of this international organization for thirty years is no mean achievement. We believe that, as an essential element in the structure of a peaceful world, the United Nations is greatly in need of improvement. We believe that the active participation of the United States in the U.N. can help achieve this. We believe that the United States can improve its image and its influence in the U.N. if our government, the prime mover of the original resolution, would endorse the Genocide Convention—a convention based on principles of human dignity.

There is a constituency for the United Nations in the United States, to support the following U.N. programs, all of which our organization of 200,000 women endorses.

HUMAN ENVIRONMENT

Women's League for Conservative Judaism urges our government to work together with the United Nations to control those aspects of the environment which cannot be regulated by private or national action. It is only through international cooperation that the objectives of the Stockholm Conference can become a reality.

RESOURCES OF THE SEA AND USE OF SEA BEDS

Women's League for Conservative Judaism urges our government to cooperate with the U.N. measures seeking to:

1. Prevent any state from further extending its territorial jurisdiction in the sea, or laying claim to mineral resources on the bed of the sea beyond such jurisdiction.

2. Forbid the use of the floor of the seas for nuclear armaments.

3. Provide for the exploitation of the sea as a common heritage of mankind.

DRUGS

Women's League for Conservative Judaism urges our government to utilize the influence of the United Nations over its member nations to cooperate in stopping the production of heroin and other drugs at their source. We also urge our government to give added support to the U.N. Commission for Narcotic Drugs, which has been charged with the control of narcotic drugs and the elimination of narcotic-yielding crops at the source.

APARTHEID

Women's League for Conservative Judaism condemns the policy of Apartheid and urges our government to observe the sanctions of the United Nations designed to end Apartheid in South Africa, and to observe the United Nations Security sanctions against Rhodesia.

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UNICEF

Women's League for Conservative Judaism urges the continued support, wholeheartedly, of UNICEF's life-giving and essential programs and projects to care for the homeless, to combat disease, to banish illiteracy and to furnish the means whereby the world's children may be aided to grow up in a happier and peaceful world.

FOOD AND POPULATION

Women's League for Conservative Judaism calls upon and urges all governments in the United Nations to work together on realistic measures to expand production and distribution of food, and to support sound population policies.

Senator JOHN SPARKMAN,

ALEXANDRIA, VA., May 9, 1975.

Chairman, Foreign Relations Committee, New Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C.

DEAR SENATOR SPARKMAN: Would you be kind enough to include the enclosed article, "What's Wrong With the United Nations", in the published record of the hearings that the Committee is currently conducting on the United Nations? Thank you very much.

Sincerely yours,

CORDELL BURCH.

Reed Benson & Robert Lee

WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE UNITED NATIONS

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Thus, Mr. Nixon affirmed that the United States would continue one of the major tragedies of its contemporary foreign policy by relying on, and supporting, an organization which was conceived by Communists, created by Communists, is controlled by Communists, and operates consistently to further the objectives of Communism.

We realize that many Americans may find it difficult to accept this evaluation of the United Nations. The image of the U.N. which has been created by our "Liberal" politicians and communications media over the years has been so blatantly one-sided September 9, 1970

in favor of the world body that the American people as a whole simply have not been allowed to evaluate properly the U.N. record. Some United Nations propagandists have even been so bold as publicly to encourage newsmen to project a false U.N. image to the world. In a February 14, 1961, speech to the United Nations Correspondents Association, for example, United Nations Ambassador Adlai Stevenson urged the news media:

Help us to create the sense of our overriding human concern. Interpret us to each other not as plotters or as war mongers or as demons or demigods, but as puzzled yet aspiring men and women struggling on the possible brink of Armageddon to achieve a common understanding and a common approach. We are not at all like that, I have no doubt. But I believe the majority of our delegates would accept such a description of their own attitudes. The whole press corps

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working at the United Nations
has a unique part to play in
projecting this picture....
(Emphasis ours. United Nations
Guardian Of Peace, Department
of State Publication 7225, Sep-
tember, 1961, Page 36.)

One of the tactics used by the United Nations propaganda network to attract the support of the American people is the claim that the Communists are trying to destroy the U.N., and it is therefore in America's interest to support it. An attempt is usually then made to discredit Americans who oppose the United Nations by claiming they are working for the same end as the Communists. It's a clever pitch, but what is the truth about the Communist attitude towards the U.N.?

Hiss, Truman, Stettinius at U.N. founding.

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Let's look at a sampling of the record.

Political Affairs is the monthly theoretical journal of the Communist Party, U.S.A. In April of 1945 – two months before the San Francisco Conference at which the U.N. was founded - that journal told its readers: "Great popular support and enthusiasm for the United Nations policies should be built up, well organized and fully articulate . . . . The opposition must be rendered so impotent that it will be unable to gather any significant support in the Senate against the United Nations Charter and the treaties which will follow."

In June of 1945, Alger Hiss (who had been described by Time magazine in its issue for April 16, 1945, as "one of the State Department's brighter young men," and who was later convicted of perjury for lying about his activities on behalf of the Soviet Union) presided as Secretary General of the San Francisco Conference. And shortly thereafter, under a barrage of Leftist propaganda, the U.S. Senate ratified the Charter with only two dissenting votes. The opposition had indeed been rendered "impotent."

On March 23, 1946, Josef Stalin was quoted by Pravda as having declared: "I attribute great importance to U.N.O. since it is a serious instrument for preservation of peace and international security." And in November of 1946 the Soviet publication Bolshevik (No. 22, Page 51) asserted that "The masses know that peace is possible only on the basis of cooperation among the existing

The Review Of The NEWS

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Pass to U.N. founding conference, signed by Communist Alger Hiss as U.N. Secretary General."

states.... The Soviet Union is fighting to have the United Nations as effective as possible."

By December 21, 1954, we find the Communist Daily Worker pointing out to its readers that "... it's not the U.N. that merits your scorn and active opposition, but the policies that have undermined the U.N. . . ." That is, the U.N. must be consistently supported by Communists unless specific notice is given to the contrary. This attitude on the part of the Comrades began to be even more forcefully presented in 1961. For by that time opposition to the United Nations in the United States was beginning to grow and more important to become effective. Instead of remaining diffused, opposition to the U.N. was being September 9, 1970

mounted in a manner that was causing real concern to those running the United Nations Organization. And so, on October 7, 1961, the West Coast newspaper of the Communist Party, People's World, carried an editorial entitled, "Save the U.N." It declared, in part:

The U.N. commands a great reservoir of support in our country.

This support should now be
made vocal.

People should write President
Kennedy, telling him -

Do not withdraw from U.N.
Restore U.N. to the Grand
Design of Franklin Roosevelt
the design for peaceful coexis-

tence.

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