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*That does not follow. The part of citizens is not to prophesy but to find an unprecedented daring and candor in thinking and political action, equal to the unprecedented challenge. "As soon as reascn oan possibly prevail, the United Nations must be transformed into world government, with effective control over development of atomic energy, inoluding the right and power of all necessary investigation in all lands, to assure that no nation secretly develops its own bomb. “american sovereignty will remain intact over all internal affairs. But we, as every nation, must extend effective sovereignty to world government for control of the world's business, "The need was already here, before the atomic bomb. Wendell Willkie, among many others, recognized the necessity of extending sovercignty to a world authority. Now, with atomic energy, the coming alternative is a fearsome race toward previously unimagined destruction. “let no one say that we can keep the bomb to ourselves, America and Britain - or that we can have the slightest assurance of keeping ahead in developing it. As Mrs. Franklin D-Roosevelt wrote last week, 1t was international from the first and calls for international control. a4 hant hewn r, Wi she i mat ha ahle ta teanefarm tha United 2 MY WEE, IAT TOS Ve MO SAD OV Re ee We ee ee Nations into world government overnight. What meantime? Here the problem is harder. There are obvious, weighty dangers in turning the bomb over to a security council without world government powers. But I believe the dangers are far less if we do than if we don't. Kight now, the international race is on. It is injuring United Nations solidarity. Russian statements, for example, minimizing the importance of the bomb, are a natural emanation of Russian dismay over exclusive Anglo-Saxon possession of a secret that could blot out whole nations, Would we feel di fferently 4f the bomb were in Russian hands, and we without it? "If members of the Security Council pool their greatest scientists for research on all phases of atomic energy, that will not assure an end to secret preparation of bombs by single nations; but other- wise suoh preparation is inevitable. And if the world's leading scientists are pooled, under the council, for world development of