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HERALD An NEWS. Klamath Falls. Ovt Wrrlnrsrlav. Anrjist S. 1P'f PAGE 9 A .... Canada " , V s9 OAS Council Headquarters United States vL- MAVirn S r I uuaremaia El Salvado Costa Rl Pana Dominican HaUiRepublie Honduras gua Venezuela, Members of rtit Organization of American Slates Br. Guiana Neth. Guiana Foreign ministers of OAS nations will meet in mid August to review Caribbean unrest mo-M i-fegjfr. Guian Colombia A t-"7 J A Ecuador I Brazil nter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance signed Sept. 2, 1947 .Bolivia-' Santiago fi Paraguay Chile 4 Argentina Uruguay Ts Pin it JoneiiO AP Ntwif.clur.. mn iti Ssdly Rseslfs f Atomic TOKYO tLTIi Japan has not which forgotten not hy a Ions shot : ins in Latin American Fire Alarm Sounds Again For Council WASHINGTON Wl - Twenty onej dark-suited diplomats gather reg ularly around a U-shaped green baize covered table in the cream and crystal "Hall of the Ameri cas" here. They talk 18 in Spanish and one each in English, French and Portu gesewhile a slim handful of spec tators watch, and tourists wander through, curious but uncompre hending. This is the Council of the Or ganization of American Stales (OAS), the directive body of one of the world's oldest and some say least known international or ganizations. The 21 ambassadors represent the 21 republics of the Americas, united in the OAS (see map) to preserve peace and promote prog ress in the hemisphere. The fire alarm that there is the possibility of war within the Amer icassounds when a nation which eels menaced appeals to the coun cil. It asks, generally, that the coun cil invoke the Inter - American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance, signed September 2, 1947, in Rio de Janeiro, and call a meeting of foreign ministers to consider this threat to peace. Meanwhile the OAS council itself can act usually hy sending on-the-spot investigators who can bring the two parties together. But it also can request other mem bers . to furnish armed forces planes, ships and men if it feels that necessary. Alternative procedures permit reference of the dispute to a five nation peace committee, or, in more serious cases, a convocation. Eight times since the Rio pact was signed, the fire alarm has rung. There was a 1948 dispute between Costa Rica and Nicara gua; a 1950 situation involving Hai ti and the Dominican Republic; the Guatemalan situation in 1954: a dispute between Costa Rica and Nicaragua in 1955, and Honduras and Nicaragua in 1957. In each case, the OAS acted promptly. Both President Eisen hower and the late Secretary of State John Foster Dulles have said it -was one of the Iree world's most effective organizations. Dulles, in fact, was fond of not ing that the OAS provided the pat tern for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and for the Southeast Asia Treaty Organiza tion tSEATO). This year because of the wave i of unrest touched off by Cuba's successful revolution has been one of crisis for the OAS. In late April, Panama invoked the Rio pact. An OAS mission arranged the surrender of 80 invaders. Then, in June, Nicaragua made a similar request. An information! committee prepared a report. Early in July, the Dominican Republic denounced Cuba and Venezuela for plotting against it, and asked the application of the Rio pact. rtiter tenginy acnaie tne council France late this month decided the foreign ministers hadprosjdc-nt Charles de ke To Visit NATO Powers best review the whole Caribbean; situation. The ministers now arc scheduled to meet in Santiago, Chile, around mid-August. The fire-fighting political activi ties, of course, are only a part of the work of the OAS. In recent years, it has sought with some success to play a more important role in economic affairs. A special council "Committee of 21 in late April listed more than 30 projects for OAS help in speed ing economic development. This program is an addition to existing technical assistance and scholar ship programs. - OAS dates back to the 182C, Congress of Panama, called by South American liberator Simon Bolivar. But it did not actually become a going thing the Pan American Union until after an 1889 conference in Washington. Ihe ran American Union was expanded into the Organization of American States at a 1948 confer ence of foreign ministers in Bogo ta, Colombia. The ministers draft ed a charter for the organization. drawing upon older inter-America treaties and precedents, including the Rio pact. In reviewing the accomplish ments of the organization, Eisen hower once remarked: Ours is an historic and mean ingful unity. It has Deen for our whole continent an honest and productive unity. It can be for other areas of the world a pro-' phetic and inspiring unity. For it is triumphant testimony, before all the world, that peace and trust and fellowship can rule the con duct of all nations, large and small, who will respect the life and dig nity of each other." PARIS 'API President Eisen howcr is expected to meet with representatives of all the North t Atlantic powers when he visits to see Gaulle. Some circles were suggesting that Eisenhower attend a meeting of the 15-natinn North Atlantic Coun cil at which the NATO foreign ministers represent their countries. VIHl'S LONDON (API British scien tists claim they have isolated a virus that develops trachoma the greatest single cause of bilnd "ncss and for the first time proved it by developing the di sease in a human volunteer. that 14 years ago this week the I atomic age was launched with the death of 78,150 persons in Hiro shima. Japan. But sliahtly, ecr so slightly, public opinion is changing. The Japanese si t II are horror stricken over that lirst atomic bomb strike on Hiroshima on Aug. B, 14.", where, in addition to the staggering death toll. U.i persons were injured and 13. were listed as missing. The Hiroshima attack was fol lowed three days later hy the sec ond atomic bomb attack on Naga saki in which 73,884 persons were killed. Five days later Japan sur rendered. ! The Japanese are hardly al-, lowed to forget the twin honor, because many still are dying ol the diseases caused by atomic radiation and this always makes news in Japan. But the fervor against atomic weapons is slowly calming. j In Japan, the only country ever to suffer atomic warlarci the anli-nuciear weapon campaign has not always been in sole pos session of the Communists and their fellow travelers as has been the case in many other countries. Indeed, Tory Party leaders, from Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi on down, have issued statements from time to time deploring atomic weapons. Japan's United Nations delegation has been in the forefront of Ihe campaign to out law atomic tests. This year, two significant events have taken place which have great bearing and effect upon public opinion so far as it regards Ihe anti-nuclear weapons campaign. They are: 1. The Hiroshima Prefectiiral Assembly voted to cut olf subsi dies to the Japan Council Against Aliinic and Hydrogen Bombs is holding its annual meet Hiroshima Ihis week. The e ed to dr. s of the up plans council to op- IMie tlie revision of the l'.S.-Ja-!campaign with the "U.S. -Japan se-lpeddle the line that pan security treaty as part of its anli-nuciear campaign. 'I he first move shows clearly thai Japanese government ofli cials at last are beginning to dis asMiciate themselves from Ihe council. The second move shows .iusl as clearly that the left-wing ers finally have captured the ; group. ! By misin the anli-nuciear revision, of the security treaty will open up Japan for the introduction of nu clear weapons. This, according to Tory leaders and Americans who should know, is patently false. 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