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Out of the frying pan and into the fire - Baruch's atomic proposal

Compared to Baruch's atomic proposal, Hitler's bid for world wide domination shows up as strictly amateur stuff.

In their frantic desire to escape destruction by atomic weapons, many superficial thinkers are willing to rush blindly into dangers infinitely worse.

The waving of sovereignty, either by veto or otherwise, furnishes no guarantee of security against economic or military injustice or aggression. In general, the proposition offered is to share secrets when all or a majority of the nations agree;

To denature atomic energy, so that it cannot be used for destructive purposes; To vest authority in the U.N., to search and seize matter from which weapons may be made; To outlaw atomic bombs and their manufacture; After agreement by a majoroty of the nations, all nations, wether signatories of such agreement or not, shall be compelled by force, to follow the dictation of the U.N., military organization.

This irresistible military force will then have power to search and inspect the most minute details of the affairs of any nation in the world, to see if its will is being observed.

The danger of vesting authority so tremendous, in the hands of any body of men, even our own citizens, is greater than even the menace of the bomb itself. This is true especially when it may be used to cement for all time, the federated power of monopoly as against the unprivileged of the whole world.

As to search and seizure, the sovereign rights of nations which do not suscribe to the proposed agreement are arbitrarily violated and they can be subjected to a ruthless domination, for whatever purposes the central authority dictates. No privacy of any description at any point on Earth would be free from the meddling snooping of this power.

Beside this, there being some 197,000 000 square miles involved, what chance would there be of successfully inspecting such a vaste area?

As to denaturing atomic energy, it is in nowise certain that this can be done successfully.

If the U.N., had been functioning when Hitler was just rising to power, and he wasn't so well known for what he was , how much do you suppose his delegates could have been trusted not to use the atomic knowledge for purposes which they have used other power?

There are other Hitlers, - perhaps even here. What proof have we that the U.N. doesn't contain international gunmen?

It is a stange coincidence that the present U.N., Secretary's name sounds suspiciously like "Trigger Lee".

Are there those so simple as to believe that a fascist woud keep his word, in or outside a U.N.?