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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 9, 1946)
Carl Van Doren Tells Convention To Study World Organization and Act By MARGUERITE WITTWER Urging delegates to the Northwest Pacific College Con ference to participate actively in public affairs which inevitably concern all citizens, Carl Van Doren, internationally known historian and New York Pulitzer prize winner, chatted in formally with students and reporters on the Reed college campus Saturday. Uic _i_• _i ing sharply with his Florida-tanned face, Van Doren told students that the same problems which concerned the Rollins conference in Florida, from which he had just flown, faced all Americans. “You must resolve to find out what your candidates for congress and your senators feel on the sub ject of world organization,” he asserted. “You should talk with your fellow-students, explain to them the facts as we know them. “Show them how the develop ment of a world organization can be compared to the development of the United States from 13 inde pendent colonies. Write letters to the newspapers. Above all, learn all you can, and urge others to learn about the United Nations and what it means.” Need World View The famed author explained that there can be no effective world or ganization as long as there are isolationists, narrow-minded na tionalists, and reactionaries in our federal government. The men who make the laws and rule the nation will determine the United States’ course of action as regards the United Nations set-up, he said, but the voters are responsible in that they elect their representatives and senators. . ^ He pointed out that it is the duty of world-minded voters to ask their congressmen to state their stand toward world federation, and to vote accordingly. Van Doren cited the example of Representative LaFollette from Indiana who is running for elec tion on a world government plat form. He commended highly this progressive viewpoint and re-em phasized the necessity for such world-mindedness. Like FBI Returning to his explanation of the UNO, Van Doren stated it was best defined by using analogies from American experience. For in stance, he said, the security police, or law enforcing body, could be compared to the American FBI which is a national, supra-state or ganization, accepted by the people and made up of individuals who •Volunteer for that service. The security police would be supra-national and could be com posed of soldiers from all nations volunteering and trained for that specific duty. His proposals to weld the exist ing United Nations into a strong functioning organization included the transformation of the general Old Oregon Posts Open to Applicants Administrative position appoint ments on Old Oregon magazine, to be made for the alumni associa tion through Doris Hack, associa tion secretary, are now being con sidered. Applications for top posi tions on the monthly magazine should be submitted to Miss Hack “at the alumni office in Friendly hall. Appointments are made near the close of spring term. Old Oregon is published ten -4imes annually, and its readership consists of alumni, former students, students, faculty and parents of students. The magazine’s top posi tions are salaried. assembly into the legislative branch of world government, the security council into the executive branch, and world courts into the judicial branch—very much like the present set-up of the United States government. Later Saturday, Van Doren ad dressed the public at the conclud ing meeting at Benson Polytechnic high school. Churchill Wrong “The wrong way to get started is to follow Churchill’s suggestion and form a bloc. The door should be open to anybody who wants to come in, and if an effective or ganization is created, every nation will want to come in,” he stated. All nations, including Russia, the United States and Britain must be willing to give up a part of their sovereignity and submit them selves to world rule, he emphasized. ROUND-TABLE DISCUSSION On the students’ stake in the atomic age is broadcast over the Columbia network. Left to right, Carl Van Doren, hostorian; Dr. Phillip Morrison, physicist; Dr. Arthur Scajtt, moderator; Dr. William Ogburn, sociologist, and Philip Dreyer, student chairman of the Northwest Pacific College Congress. CARL VAN DOREN Eminent historian and Pulitzer prize-winner chats infor mally with NPCC delegates, urging study of the UNO. CONGRESSIONAL (Continued from page tivo) problem of better international understanding-. Sub g., also section II, regard ing reciprocal trade agreements and their continuance, should in clude more specific suggestions pertaining to international legis lation outlawing'all cartels. If I. G. Farben, International Tel. & Tel., Standard Oil, DuPont, Mitsubishi and other world-wide industrial entities, are allowed to continue their disgraceful performances be gun during this war, they shall soon hav the chance to duplicate and re-create the same vicious fi nancial chain which allowed a neutral capitalist to own stock in belligerent munitions combines; an American oil company to erect a high octane plant in the heart of fascist Germany; an allied gov ernment lending agency to finance officially the construction of a Focke-Wulf plant in Argentina; a German nobleman, high on Hit ler’s list of favorites, to control I. T. & T., and indirectly, Ameri can T. & T., from a British pris oner of war camp on the continent. Abolish trade agreements between private industry, and arrive at in ter-nation trade treaties. The United Nations should be further advised, either by amend ment or addition to the College Congress resolutions, to supervise the expenditure of all inter-nation loans. Economic exchange chan nels should prohibit one nation lending to another under the guise of creating profit for private con cerns. Credit should be extended, and questioned only when that credit will not be used for im portation of commodities basic to public need. Germany cannot be allowed, for example, to exist on official foreign capital, building again a South American trade monopoly excluding other powers. An "open door” policy must be created by UNO. Atomic energy must be civilian controlled, not by anyone’s military clique. These things have been stated in an ad mirable straightforward manner by the College Congress. Now I, for one, shall wait for the immedi ate result of their political pio neering, with hope, not despair, in my mind. 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