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...Peace & UNO. The great and dominant objective of United States foreign policy is to build and preserve a just peace. It will be the continuing policy of the United States to use all its influence to foster, support and develop the United Nations Organization in its purpose of preventing international war. If peace is to endure it must rest upon justice no less than upon power. We know from day-today experience that the chance for a just solution is immeasurably increased when everyone directly interested is given a voice. That does not mean that each must enjoy an equal...
President Truman gave UNO delegates in London something to chew on. The U.S., he said, is going to hang onto the islands it needs in the Pacific...
...statement, delivered off the cuff at a White House press conference, called for holding the islands under "individual trusteeship," and it gave some hope to friends of UNO who believe that the trusteeship ideal of the San Francisco conference can somehow be maintained. The same words caused some qualms among those Congressmen and Army & Navy chiefs who believe the U.S. should annex Pacific islands outright. The qualms were unjustified...
When King George VI banqueted the UNO delegates, no nation was excluded. But not even royal hospitality softened the Russians. All week Andrei Gromyko got up and made more forcibly than ever Russia's old point that the success of UNO rests wholly on Big Three unanimity (which to Russia generally means that the other two give in). This exclusive attitude was so conspicuous that a TIME correspondent asked one of the British diplomats who knows the Russians best...
...fair to say that the Russians really do have a real interest in UNO, but, still convinced that UNO is based on a big-power alliance, think that talk about it being anything more is silly...