Still a Stalemate

Secretary General Trygve Lie made a new effort last week to end Russia's walkout and the U.N. stalemate. Lie proposed a ten-point, 20-year "program for achieving peace through the United Nations."

Lie's ten points: 1) periodic Security Council meetings on a foreign-minister level, 2) atomic control, 3) disarmament, 4) a U.N. police force, 5) acceptance of all 14 nations* now awaiting admission to U.N., 6) technical aid for backward countries, 7) greater use of U.N.'s specialized agencies, 8) vigorous pressing of the U.N. program for human rights, 9) advancement of dependent peoples, 10) further development of international law.

Worthy though Lie's program looked--at least at first glance--it bore little resemblance to the facts of international life in 1950. Russia had held up action on nearly all the ten points long before the China dispute arose. There was no sign that Moscow had changed its mind.

* Soviet vetoes have blocked nine states: Austria, Ceylon, Finland, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Korea, Nepal, Portugal. Five Soviet satellite states--Albania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Outer Mongolia, Rumania--have failed to win a majority but the democratic nations have used no veto to bar them from membership.

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