"Years of proof must pass by," said President Franklin Roosevelt in August 1944, "before we can trust Japan and before we can classify her as a member of the society of nations which seeks permanent peace." Last week, with the sponsorship and all-out backing of U.S. Chief Delegate Henry Cabot Lodge, Japan became the first former Axis nation elected to the U.N. Security Council.
Japan's election brought a roar of outrage from the U.S.S.R., whose candidate for the post was Czechoslovakia. Fuming that "the United Nations is not a club of like-minded people...
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