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Entered as second class matter October 14. 1943, at ‘.he postoffice
at Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Nome, Alaska, Wednesday, October 20, 1948
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UNITED NATIONS DAY—OCTOBER 24
(Mrs. J. L. Blair Buck, President
General Federation of Women’s Clubs)
General Assembly of the United Nations has designat
ed Octobed 24 as United Nations Day and asks that this
day be devoted to making known to the people of the
world the aims and achievements of the U. N. and to
gaining their support for its work.
I am asking every club of the General Federation to
plan a special program in honor of this day which sym
bolizes the will towards peace of peoples everywhere.
General Federation Headquartres has available a
quiz program on the United Nations and a panel dis
cussion on the International Children’s Emergency
Fund, both of which constitute complete programs for
club meetings. We have, in addition, material on the
World Health Organization, the Food and Agriculture
Organization, the International Refugee Oorganization,
the International Trade Organization and UNESCO
around which club programs could be built.
I would like to suggest that every club which has not
already done so feature the program on the Internation
al Children’s Emergency Fund because the American
Overseas Aid-United Nations Appeal for Children in
this country is to date far short of its goal of sixty mil
lion dollars. As you know, a large part of this money is
for the ICEF. In what better or more tangible way could
the women of the country support the United Nations
than by contributing to the rehabilitation of the tragic
child victims of the war?
In whatever manner we honor United Nations Day,
may we do so with a spirit of prayerful dedication and
high resolve to contribute in fullest measure to its work
for peace.
I
PREPARE OR SURRENDER
(By Palmer Hoyt, Jr.)
In a recently published Soviet book on economics,!
Nicolai Voznesensky has stated flatly that war between
the United States and Russia is inevitable unless Amer
ica capitulates to the Soviet Union.
Voznesensky is a member of the Soviet Politburo and
a deputy premier of the Soviet Union, so the book must
be regarded as representative of official Russian Com
munist thinking. Perhaps Henry Wallace can reconcile it
to his undoubtedly genuine hope for peace, but most
other Americans will find it hard to believe that the
Russians don’t mean what they say.
In a recent column, Dorothy Thompson said that dic
tators, in their writing and public speeches, always call
their shots. They may camouflage their aims, and the
dictators may try to persuade prospective vicitms that
those aims are misrepresented by vicious propaganda.
Yet Hitler published his entire program of world dom
ination in MeinKempf, Mussolini did much the same
in early writings and speeches, and the Soviets have
never deviated more than momentarily from their basic
thefhe that the entire world must be communist.
Voznesensky says: “To prevent the possibility of ap
pearance within a future period of new capitalist ag
gression against the socialist homeland, and the begin
ning of a third world war, it is necessary that the ag
gressor imperialist countries be disarmed militarily and
economically, and that the anti-imperialist democratic
countries rally together.”
The Soviet deputy premier also points out that Russia
must have a completely free hand, either to co-operate
in international control, or to dump commodities on the
triple threat
warfare without fear of retaliation. Under the Pax Sov
ietica all the rest of the world must be subordinated to
the Soviet Union. To carry out this “peace program,”
the Russians insist on the military and economic dis
armament of the United States. All the while the Soviet
Union would maintain what Voznesensky now admits is
a war economy.
Voznesensky has defined democratic countries as
only those content to whirl around the Soviet Union as
satellites, and he further outlines the Soviet position on
international Communism.
Only he who unconditionally protects the U. S. S. R.
world market; in other words, to engage in any kind of
is an internationalist, for it is impossible to solve the
problems of the international revolutionary movement
wthout protecting the Soviet Union.”
We should be certain now that Soviet talk of peace is
nothing more than talk, intended to disarm Russia’s fu
ture victims. On the subject of Communism, Stalin
wrote, in Problems of Leninism:
“To think that such a revolution can be carried out
peacefully within the framework of bourgeois democ
racy which is adapted to the rule of the borugeois means
that one has either gone out of one’s mind and lost nor
mal human understanding or has grossly and openly
repudiated the proletarian revolution.”
In his interviews since the war with Harold Sta^s^n.
Hugh Baillie of United Press association, and
Stalin has claimed that communism and capitalist de
mocracy can live side by side. But now, Voznesensky’s
book leaves little to the imagination. It is documentation
of a plan for enslavement of the entire world.
Voznesensky offers plain proof that Soviet imperial
ism, no matter what name it wishes to adopt, is still the;
same old violent imperialism. Despite Stalin’s rosy
words, the Politburo has not changed its aims. The Rus
sians themselves now tell us that our only hope for peace
is surrender—or preparedness for total war.
BEWARE THE TENDERFEET
Recently the national union of Polish Boy and Girl
Scouts denounced the “reactionary principles” of inter
national scoutdom, and indicated that they would strike
out for bigger and better things.
To us this brings a vision of Junior in his khaki shorts
and shirt, sitting under a big pine tree on a hillside and
frowning as the scoutmaster comes up.
“What’s wrong, Junior? Why aren’t you building
fires by friction? No work, no merit badges is our motto,
you know.”
f “To heck with merit badges,” Junior replies. “What
I m worrying about are social wrongs and oppression
of colonial peoples. Just what are the Boy Scouts going
to do about that?” * °
We don’t know, Junior. But we are pretty sure that
little Ladislaus won’t show up at the next Jamboree
The woods around these parts are too full of “reaction
A Proclamation
United Nations Week
And Day, 1948
By the Governor of
The Territory ^Of Alaska
WHEREAS the people of the
United States are united in a firm
resolve to cooperate effectively
with other countries, through the
medium of the United Nations, to
the end that a future of peace,
freedom, and justice may prevail
upon the earth; and
WHEREAS it is fitting that the
devotion of the American people
to the ideal expressed in the Char
ter of the United Nations should
be reaffirmed in our inmost hearts
and expressed in public ceremon
ies; and ,
WHEREAS it is our desire that
our support of the United Nations
be given added strength and posi
tive affirmation through the activ
ities of an informed public; and
WHEREAS we, the people of
Alaska, occupy the northernmost
and westernmost portion of the
American continent, the only por
tion of the United Staets fronting
on the Arctic Ocean and the only
portion of the United States within
n: kcd eye’s view of another con
tinent; and
WHEREAS we, the American
citizens of ^laska are acutely
aware of the importance of Alas
ka’s strategic position and realize
fully the great perils to which we,
above all other Americans, would
be exposed in the event of a third
world war; and
WHEPtEAS, while fully sensible
of our responsibilities and duties
and determined to carry them ou
whenever called upon, we appre
ciate how imperative it is to aver
future wars fought with atomi
weapons if such wars may b
averted without sacrifice of th
principles of human freedom am
justice which we, together will
other Americans, believe in and t
the maintenance of which we ar
dedicated; and
WHEREAS the General Assem
bly of the United Nations, on Oc
tober 31, 1947, unanimously adopl
ed a resolution declaring that Oc
tober 24, the anniversary of th
coming into force of the Charte
of the United Nations, ‘‘sha
henceforth be officially calle
‘United Nations Day’ and shall b
devoted to making known to lb
peoples of the worid the aims an
achievements of the Uni'ed Nt
tions and to gaining their suppoi
for the work of the United N<
tions;” and
WHEREAS the General ‘Assen
bly, in the same resolution, invi
ed the member governments to c<
operate with the United Natioi
in securing the observance <
United Nations Day; and
WHEREAS the President of tl
United States, Harry S. Truma
has urged the people of the Unit*
States to observe October 24, 194
as United Nations Day by exe
cises exemplifying our recogr
tion of the achievements of tl
United States, our support of i
aims, and our determination
strive for the realization of i
aims; and
WHEREAS the President of tl
United States has called upon c
ficers of the Federal, state and 1
cal governments, as well as up<
civic, educational, and religio
organizations and institutions, ai
also upon the agencies of tl
press, radio, and other media
information, to cooperate wi
programs to give public exprf
sion,to our devotion to the Un-t
Nations and to make more effr
tive our participation in the v>'°
the Uni*ei Nation*: