KU Professor Says-
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'World Doomed if Nations Cannot Bargain in Peace'
"The world has grown so small and modern technology in war is so overwhelming that the end of the nation-state as we know it is inevitable. The UN is a small first step in the direction of bringing some sort of order out of the existing chaos," Prof. Laird said.
The United Nations has been useful and successful in certain day to day matters such as the World Health Organization, Prof. Laird said, but mostly because these matters are not the type over which nations will go to war.
The world seems to destined to destruction in an atomic war if it does not achieve some form of effective international organization, Roy D. Laird, assistant professor of political science, said today.
Prof. Laird was asked to make his observations on the future of the world and world government by The Daily Kansan today. This is the 13th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations.
However, he said he did not believe the United Nations at present
is powerful enough to prevent third world war.
Has Decreased War Chances
"I would say that the chances of a third world war having already come about would have been much greater had it not been for the UN." Prof. Laird said.
"At first, it appeared that the UN was powerless even to discuss an issue without first establishing some sort of agreement with the Big Five.
"The focus of activity in the UN has shifted perceptively from the Security Council to the General Assembly in recent years," he said. "This is so," he said, "even though the UN, like the League of Nations, was built on the base of big powers.
Prof. Laird said that a point not realized by many people is that it is impossible to count the wars that have not happened. He said he believed that the scholars on international organization are in nearly unanimous agreement on the fact that the UN's existence has worked to prevent a number of small wars.
General Assembly Took Over
General Assembly Took Over "What happened is that at the time of the Korean War, the members of the General Assembly pointed to the UN Charter which they interpreted to say that when the Security Council fails to act, the General Assembly has the right
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As a result of this, he said, the smaller nations of the world have been able to play a much more important role in international deliberation than they ever did in the League of Nations.
a[ and duty to go ahead and act."
"One of the most important things to watch for in the evolution process of the UN into a more effective stronger organization is the establishment of some sort of police force." Prof. Laird said.
He said that if such a UN police force is ever started it would be a milestone in international relations. The logical end of such a development, he said, would be to substitute a group of coordinated armies, such as the UN forces in Korea, with one international army.
Police Force Is Impossible
"With all the qualifications that can be made about the UN effort in Korea, this step was a forward one in the realm of international organization."
"This is one roadblock which I can not see being overcome," Prof. Laird said. "It will be impossible to get Russia, Britain and the United States to commit forces to a UN army. The whole thing will be bypassed because of the reality of big power politics in international relations."
Around the Campus Dr. Gaston to Attend KU Prof. Edits Journal National Conference
Dr. E. Thayer Gaston, professor of music education, will spend Thursday, Friday and Saturday in Cincinnati, Ohio, at the 9th annual conference of the National Association of Music Therapy.
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Dr. Gaston will preside at several general discussions and lead the session on certification, registration and education. He is past president of the NAMT and editor and chairman of the NAMT certification committee.
James A. Peoples, Jr., associate professor of geology, is a new editor of the Journal of Geophysical Research, a monthly publication of the American Geophysical Union.
Dr. Peoples teaches advanced courses in geophysics at KU. For the past ten years he was chief of the Terrestrial Sciences Laboratory, Geophysics Research Directorate, at the Air Force Cambridge Research Center.
Dr. Peoples will collaborate with Philip H. Abelson of the Geophysical laboratory of the Carnegie Institution in Washington, in editing the January issue.
Homecoming Sketches Due
The theme this year is TV programs. Duplicate subjects will not be rejected as long as the ideas for developing them are different.
The deadline for sketches of Homecoming house decorations is noon Friday. All sketches are to be turned in to the Alumni Assn. office.
The houses whose ideas were rejected because of duplication will have their new plans reviewed next Friday.
Forty-three houses turned in applications before Oct. 17. Of these, 35 were approved and eight rejected.
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