Toward the Super-State

Another young (40) Minnesota Republican supplied specifics where Stassen had dealt in generalities. U.S. Senator Joseph Hurst Ball, an internationalist from way back, came out for a superstate and told how to get one. The atomic bomb, he thought, left no alternative. In any sensible system, said Ball:

"We would have government on a world level, and the U.S. national government, like those of all other nations, would, in the field of war and preparations for war, be inferior to and subject to the United Nations. . . . Are we going to be frightened by mere words into disregarding the realities of the world in which we live?"

UNO should be the logical framework. Yet: ". . . The Governments now in power in Britain, Russia and the United States are planning to rely for security far more upon national strength and regional arrangements than on a worldwide security organization. . . ."

Ball proposed that:

P: The veto power of the five permanent members of the UNO Security Council be eliminated.

P: UNO create an international police force.

P:The international police force possess the world's only legal stockpile of atomic bombs.

P: UNO supervise, and the international police enforce, free international exchange of scientific information and inspection. P:The trusteeship provisions be rewritten to place under UNO's administration "such trouble spots of the world as Java, Indo-China, Korea, Trieste, Palestine, and perhaps even Austria and Bulgaria."

Ball faced up to "the $64 question"-Russia. But the U.S. could not "know what Russia will accept until we propose something. . . ." He added:

"Perhaps an invitation to Russia's leaders and scientists to observe a demonstration of the atomic bomb dropped in Siberia might help. And as a last resort there is always the possibility of organizing the rest of the world and leaving Russia in self-imposed isolation."

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