Volume 5 Number 42
The 15th birthday of the United
Nations is to be observed on Oct.24th.
Admission of many new nations has
swelled its membership and the appear
ance before the General Assembly by
many Chiefs of State including Mr.
Kruschev and other heads of the Soviet
bloc states have sparked a high drama
that electrifies the world.
The international organization est
ablished after WWII to replace the Lea
gue of Nations has in its charter of
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preamble and 19 chapters of internat
ional peace and security, development
of friendly relations between states
and achivement of cooperation in the
solving of international economic,
social, cultural, and humanitarian
problems.
While it is disheartening at times
to see some members of the United Nat
ions using the General Assambly for
gross deceit under the symbolic olive
branch of peace to discredit and make
other nations appear treacherous it is
equally as heartening to note that they
are talking peace, not shunning dis
cussion of it.
FREE PRESS- BULWARK of LIBERTY
National Newspaper Week, Oct. 15 - 21,
will see a lot of salutes to the nat
ion's press, and a tip of the cap from
the Armed Forces certainly belongs am
ong them. Newspapers may on occasion
be critical of the services as they are
of other branches of the government.
That's their right, and if we have it
coming to us, more power to them.
As .we in the service protect the free
dom of the press embodied 'in the Bill
of Rights, so the press is our defender
and champion. Most of us who look to
it as an indispensable part of our
daily lives would only realize our true
debt, to .it...if its—frefidomsjwgfi shacked.