Citizen Stassen Speaks

Delegate Harold Stassen's job at San Francisco was finished. The hefty Minnesotan called on President Truman, reported that he was ready to return to duty as Commander Stassen, U.S.N.R. But for one night last week he was still Citizen Stassen, with a message for other U.S. citizens about the World Security charter. His audience was vast--the NBC network.

Minnesota's Stassen had specific criticisms of the charter's weaknesses, but he insisted that there was room in it for corrections. He also had specific recommendations for making the charter work, for developing "an intelligent, informed, American viewpoint" on major world problems. He urged that the President appoint bipartisan groups to study policy issues.

Said Citizen Stassen: "We in the United States are now thoroughly and almost unanimously agreed that the walls of isolation are gone forever. . . . But we must find in both broad and specific terms what our view is on the problems of world relationship." As a broad-principled base of U.S. policy he proposed twelve points:

P:Complete, decisive victory over Japan.

P:Ratification ol the charter, and broad powers for the U.S. representative in the world organization.

P:U.S. mediation between contending viewpoints in the world.

P:"That we consider the future welfare and peace of America as inseparably intertwined with [that] of the world."

P:Use of U.S. economic strength to advance living standards of other peoples.

P:Agreements to use U.S. armed forces to support world stability and security.

P:Stripping from World War II aggressors of the means to make another war.

P:Fostering of freedom of information throughout the world.

P:Acceptance of the new world court's jurisdiction over international questions affecting the U.S.

P:A helping hand to dependent peoples "in their struggle for progress." P:Protection of U.S. democracy from outside efforts to undermine it. P:

P:"That through it all we will constantly emphasize and recognize the basic dignity of man and his inalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."

His strong piece spoken. Commander Stassen went back to work--on Admiral William F. Halsey's staff in the Pacific.

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