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University Daily Kansan
Friday, Feb. 7, 1964
Harris Discusses Two Peace Bodies
Neither of the major peace organizations of the 20th century, the League of Nations and the United Nations, have been able to establish "real peace," Errol E. Harris, professor of philosophy, said last night.
Prof. Harris said his conclusion to last semester's lectures in the continuing series of lectures on the "Philosophy of War and Peace" was that national sovereign independence is incompatible with the legal control of international relations.
The establishment of peace is an indispensible requirement for the survival of civilization, he said, but while national sovereign independence exists such peace is not possible.
Prof. Harris said "real peace" could exist as a nomal state of affairs in a civilized society where the rule of law prevails. The absence of the rule of law creates a state of relative non-belligerence that is no more than a period of truce between wars which eventually breaks down into war, he said.
National sovereign independence makes the character of international politics one of power politics which aims at either maintaining the status quo or improving the nation's prospect, Prof. Harris said.
The League of Nations attempted to create peace by the maintenance of international rules of laws but national sovereign independence coupled with the league's impotency in affecting laws brought about its downfall. Prof. Harris said.
The founders of the United Nations sought to remedy the defects of the League of Nations, but they were much less optimistic about establishing real peace than were their predecessors.
The U.N. charter provided for a two-thirds majority vote in the general assembly to ratify an action, in contrast to the League of Nation's rule of unanimous vote. It also provided for armed forces to enforce UN laws, Prof. Harris said.
"But now we realize that these improvements are merely superficial." The power of veto in the UN security council has made the great powers the ones which determine the actions taken in international crises, he said.
The armed forces of the UN have never existed in any kind of permanent unit. The chiefs of staff of these forces have never been clear about who to take orders from, and in several instances troops have been recalled home by their own government. The U.N. can only "call" on member states to provide forces, and hope that they do, Prof. Harris said.
Prof. Harris said, the UN charter also recognizes and affirms the sovereignty of member nations in the first subsection of Article 2 which excludes the UN from intervention
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in domestic affairs. Article 57 of the charter reserves the right to attack in self-defense, with a provision that the UN will step in to restore order.
There is nothing in the constitution of the U.N. that can change the shape of international character, he said. "The only kind of peace the UN can maintain is a spurious, insecure one."
"This is what Hobbes called the state of nature. If it is peace, it is one which prevails when there is no real peace. There is no less power politics today that there was before World War I."
The concert of live jazz scheduled to be presented at 3:00 p.m. Sunday in the Big Eight room of the Kansas Union has been cancelled, Richard Warner, Chairman of the Jazz Forum Committee, said today.
Jazz Show Cancelled
SUA JAZZ FORUM
presents
Live Concert by The Clarence Awaya Trio
Feb.9 3:00 p.m.
Big 8 Room
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