Levels of Thinking

As UNO's Preparatory Commission, called "Preco," met in London last week to prepare the agenda for the first General Assembly meeting in January, there was rising sentiment that UNO be given more power. The atom was responsible.

Ernest Bevin (see FOREIGN NEWS) expressed a widespread British feeling when he proposed a directly-elected world assembly.

In the U.S., top-level thinking had not advanced so far. But on the next level down were two Senators who are sometimes bellwethers in matters international. Scholarly James W. Fulbright of Arkansas and forthright Carl A. Hatch of New Mexico urged removal of the Big Five's veto power in UNO. Said Hatch: "An organization whose machinery can be stopped and rendered totally useless by the vote of one nation . . . can hardly endure in the light of things as they are today. . . ."

To get an inkling of current Russian sentiment on UNO, observers had to drop down one more level--to Andrei Gromyko, U.S.S.R. delegate to UNO. At the Preco meeting, Gromyko was cautious as ever about committing his country, but made a point of stressing Russia's support of the world organization.

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