UNITED NATIONS: Podzhlgateli Voiny

The great word war over "Who's a warmonger?" ended this week at Lake Success. The month's debate was a sea of platitude lashed by the winds of bombast and invective. It resulted in a resolution condemning talk that might disrupt the peace. Everybody could agree to that. In fact, everybody did; the vote was 56-to-0.

This unanimous vote followed defeat of the Russian anti-warmongering resolution. Andrei Vishinsky and his Slav-bloc friends started from the premise that private ownership of the means of production leads to war. It followed, in Communist logic, that...

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