January, 1960
THE SKIRL
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Excerpts From Report On 14th
General Assembly Of The United Nations
Part of a report to the Ameri
can Friends Service from the
14th Genieral Assembly of the
United Nations. With, how much
of the iniformation are you fa
miliar?
General and Complete Dis
armament: The visit of Mr.
Khmschchev to the United Na
tions on September 18 and his
proposali for general and com-
ptete disarmament has' insured
that tlhere wiE be a lively dis
cussion of the disarmament
question in the Assembly. The
USSR Delegation has since
proposed that the item of gene
ral and comfplete disarmament
be placed on the agenda. This
proposal has been accepted by
the Aseemlbly.
Report of the Disarmament
Commission. Folowing a dis-
putee in the 13th session o>f the
General Assembly over the com
position of a new Disarmament
Commission, the Assembly de
cided to inicrease the size of the
Commission to indUide all 82
memlbeirs. It was obvious that
further effective work on disn
armament would need to be
conducted, either by subcom
mittees, or in some ^eciaUy
constituted negotiating group
outside the United Nations.
The full Commission -did not
meet during the winter and
spring of 1959. At the ciose of
Uie Foreign Ministers’ Confer
ence in Geneva this summer, the
four powers agreed to the es
tablishment of a ten-member
negotiating group on disarma
ment, composed' of five coun
tries from the West (the United
States, the United Kingdom,
France, Canadia and Italy) and
five countries from the Com
munist group (the USSR, Po
land, Czechoslovakia, Romania,
and Bulgaria). There was muiCh
unhappiness at the United Na
tions over this action. Many
states felt it would have been
wiser for some negotiating
group to have been established
under the general authority of
the U.N. Disarmament Commis
sion. Nevertheless, when the
full Commission met early
September a resolution
siulbmitted by Ceylon, Ecuador,
India, Indonesia, Ireland, the
United Arab Repiiblic, and Yu
goslavia, which emphasized the
ultimate responsibility of the
(e) recommended that the
Disarmament Commission
should continue in ^being and be
convened wihenever necessary.
This resolution was approved
by the Disarmament Commi&
sion and forwarded to the memr
ber states, by (the Secretary-
Genenal along with his request
that the disarmament item be
placed on the Assemibly’si agen>-
da.
Prevention of Wider Dissem
ination of Nuclear Weapons.
During the 13-th Greneral As-
sembly the Delegation of Ire
land drew the Assemlbly's atten-!
tion to the dangers to world
peace involved in the spread of
nuclear weapons and to the ur
gent need that the present nu-
Semester Begins With
Performance Of
Bizet’s Carmen
The Niationai (Grass Roots) ,
Opera Company will perform'
Bizet’s Carmen (in English) in
the college auditorium on Jan
uary 29, at 8:15 p.m. j
The company was formed in
1948 by an attorney and busl-
nessmani,. A. J. Fletcher, who
wanted opera presented in the
English ilianguage. One of the
main purposesi was to give
young professionals experience, j
Experience they got, for they
have suhig under suich adverse
conditions as' mive in the dres
sing rooms and blown fuses dlur-
ing performances. At one time
the make®hi!ft stage had such
. , large cracks that an occasional
clear powers would remain the . „ i i. i, i,u
^ , heel was lost. We hope that the
sole possessors of such wea- j-t; „ „ ^
^ ^ , i conditions as nuce in the dres-
pons. The Irish Minister for eX'
ternal' Affairs, iMr. Frank Aiken,
introduced a draft resolution,
one paragraph of which wouild
have had the Assemiblly recog
nize the dangers inherent in the
further disiseminiation of such
weapons. This paragraph was
44 albstentions. In the aibsence
of sufficient votes for the reso
lution to "be passed by a plen- i
lution, expressing the hope that
the reconstituted Disarmament
Commission would deal with
the question as one of its first
items.
In the explanatory memoran
dum accomipanying the request
that the item be inscribed on
the agenda of the present As-
semlbly ,the Irish Government
statesi: “In the light of the recog-
Eseamlllo, the toreador, finds the fiery gypsy girl. Carmen,
a fascinating companion. From the National Grass Roots Opera
Company oroduction of CARMEN, by Bizet.
considers that it has exhausted important questions concerning
all direct and peaceful means
I for settlement of the problem,
when they make their aippear-
ance here.
The minsiical director and ac
companist is Dobbs Franks, a
Juldard graduate and one time
touring accompanist with the
Robert Shaw Chorale. Mr.
Franks lias made several) record-
approved by the First Commit- this chorale. Dr. John
Newfield, stage director, is weSl
known because of his association
with major opera companies,
mumi a piciir ^he present performers come' „,
ary meeting (a two-thirds vote^fj-oj^ New York, Virginia, cali-' ^
is required), ,the representative Miissouri, North Carolina, I General Assem-
of Ireland withdrew the reso-1 Oregon, Maine, and the District
of Columbia. Most of them have ] Algeria. Major developments
college degrees or an equivalent ’ are expected immediately on
from mxiisic sichiools. Yearly au- J continuing crisis in Algeria,
ditions are hedd in New York i ^be De Gaulle government fac-
and Raleigh. The performers' ^ series oi major decisions
must not only qualify in voice,' on its Algerian policy which
but 'also in acting ability, ap- cannot ibe postponed. The U.N.
pearanlce, and musiicianship. j spotlight on French policy in
Singers, who have sung with , North Africa vnll' again b© fo-
this company, have also appear-1 cused on Algeria by tte intro-
ed in the New York City Opera, I duction of an agenda item from
nition of the dangers involved I the NBC Television Opera, the' a 25-nation ^oup, composed'
in the wider distribution of nu-lNew Orleans Opera Company,' chiefly of Mrican nations, but
clear weaponsi imiplied in the and others. | also including India, Japan,
If you enjoyed the simithering Burma, and Pakistan. Last year
taste of Carmen s'uaiig by Nell j no resolution on Algeria was
Rankin, you probably vnl en-1 adopted by the Assembly. On
joy the program on January 29
developments in Africa
confront the delegates.
win
in
was
vote in the First Committee in
the 13th session of the Gene-
ial Assembly, andi the subse
quent developments, the Irish
Government believes it will be
the wish of the General Assem
bly to give further considera
tion to this important and ur
gent question at its 14th session
in the hope that effective and
generaJiy acceptable means of
dealing with it may be found.”
Suspension of Nuclear and
Thermonuclear Tests. At the
United Nations- for disarmament end of October, 1958, the Unit-
measures, 'but which ed States, the United Kingdom,
(a) took note of a communi- and the USSR with the endorse-
cation from the Foxir Powers in- ment of the 13th General As-
dioating the arrangements which sembly, began negotiations at
tions are due to resume
Geneva on October 12.
in
saiibmrtting the item, the spon
sors stated that “despite -the
appeals in the resodlutionis adop
ted at the 11th and 12th
they had made for further dis
armament negotiations;
(b) welcomed these disairma-
ment consultation® and' the in
tention of the countries con
cerned to keep the Disarma
ment Commission informed;
(c) expressed the hope that
the results achieved woulid pro
vide a useful basis for the fur
ther consideration of ddsarma-
ment in the United Nations;
(d) requested the Secretary-
(Jeneral to provide appropriate
facilities: for the proposed' con
sultations; and
United Nations headquarters in
Geneva in an effort to agree
upon a treaty for the suspension
of nuclear tests. Substantial pro
gress has been made in these
negotiations, 'although several
difficult problems stiM. remain.
The two principal ones are the
ses-
India asked that the item be j sions and contrary to the wishes
inscribed on this year’s agenda of the majority of member
in the belief that “in the un- j states expressed at the 13th ses-
fortunate event of no agreement | sion, there has been no indica-
being reached at Geneva in the j tion of improvement in the Al-
near future, a discussion of this i gerian situation.”
problem at the forthcoming ses- j The United! States Delegation
sion . . . should contribute to [ again expected to use its in-
its early and satisfactory solu- fauence toward preventing the
tion.” i Assembly resolJution critical of
Question of French Nuclear | French policy in Algeria. In
Tests in the Sahara. This item ^is opening statement in- the
was' proposed by the Deliegation General Assembly, Secretary of
of Morocco. The delegation has
indicated that on several occas
ions the King of Morocco has
drawn the attention of French
authorities to the diangers of
such experiments. The -delega
tion now states that, -in view of
composition of the personnel to the anxiety of the Moroccan
be stationed at control posts in population which is exposed to
the countries where the inspec- the consequence of the experi-
tion is taking place, and the ments planned, and in view of
question of whether the treaty
would be comlprehensivfr—cover
ing underground as well as at
mospheric tests. The negotia-
State Christian Herter said,
“The United iStates . . hopes
that no action wiH be taken
here wihich would prejudice
the real'ization of a just
and peaceful solution for Al
geria such as is promised by
Generali De Gaulle’s far-reach
ing declaration with its provis
ion for self-determination by
the Algerian people.”
Africa
Again, as in the past two As-
France’s refusal to pay heed to
Morocco’s warnings and of its
rejection of the moist recent Mo
roccan note, the government semblies especially, a number of
More About
YOG Discusses
concern- is the man himself. Ec-
olesiaistical' decrees concerning
the relation of the Church with
the State have remained the
Isame for the past century, since
the time of Pope Leo IX. “Of
ficially,” the Church is over the
State, and in* matters.- of faith
and morals the Church rules.
This rulin'g is very real today.
Only lasit year in Sicilly citizens
were ordered- by ecclesiastical
authority not to support a par-
'ti-outer pa'rty. In Spain and Italy
also, the modem Roman Catho
lic is -restricted in making po
litical decisions.
In the U. S. Roman Catholics
|for the most part agree with the
American interpretation on the
separa;tion of the Church and
State. However, it isi the aim of
Catholicism to become univer
sal and it is here that we must
choose our man carefully.
Senator Kennedy has said
that “whatever one’s religion is
his private life may be, for the
lofficeholder nothing takes pre
cedence over his oath . . .” This
holds to the American interpre
tation of the Chureh-iState rela
tionship. He apparently has a
very deep respect for American
democracy and our Constitution
— wMch includes freedom of
religion and choice. The “of-
'ficialF’ Roman Catholic decrees
irefute aU this. Senator Kenne
dy is a man of many good quali
ties and capabilities and should
be considered- carefully. The
American dtizen should study
this man and decide what views
we can depend on him to hold
to.