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Friday, September 23, 1966
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BEHIND UN SCENES By DAVID HOROWITZ
Goldberg Reports to the President
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Inventory of Accomplishments —1966
UNITED NATIONS (WUP) —
It is just one year ago that Jus-
tioe Arthur Goldberg left the
Supreme Court and arrived here
as Washington’s new Ambassador
to the UN in a surprise appoint
ment by President Johnson. Re
cently the dynamic negotiator par
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excellence presented a brief re
port of his 12-month steward
ship, a report less significant in
substance than in the fact that
it was made over the head of
Secretary of State Dean Rusk di
rectly to the President—and this
significance cannot be over-rated.
The direct contact of the UN
Ambassador with the President is
especially important in light of
the refusal of the UN to do any
thing for the U. S. on the world
shaking issue of Vietnam. Such
a situation could alienate the
Chief Executive from the World
Organization when it is so far
removed from the national inter
est, which is, of course, the war.
But by his tact, his formulations,
and above all by his absolute
faith in the UN, its effectiveness
and its future, Goldberg’s great
est accomplishment — and one
which he cannot mention in such
a report—is that he has kept the
Administration close to the UN
and its problems and potential
ities.
The report faithfully reflects
the Ambassador’s faith and loy
alty in the aspirations and
strivings of the World Organiza
tion. All too brief, and obvious
ly hastily written, it nonetheless
sums up the continued effective
ness of the UN on the true lines
in Kashmir, in the Middle East,
in Cyprus and elsewhere. It fur
ther stresses the pushing, plod
ding effort of the UN in the field
of disarmament in which issue
it alone can achieve that which
inevitably must come—a break
through in an armed nuclear
world.
There is another point Gold
berg could not mention in his
report—his own ability in a job
for which he had no previous ex
perience but which he is carry
ing out with energy, good judg
ment, excellent administration of
his gigantic staff, a personal like-
ability and, above all, with an
unbounded sense of dedication to
international concepts of peace.
It can be said that all his vir
tues are his own, and where he
“falters”—that must be attributed
to the shortcomings of an Ad
ministration which seemingly
has no aptitude for the kind of
foreign policy that could match
the greatness of the CQuntry in
the world of today.
“Crucial problems lie ahead for
the UN,” Arthur Goldberg told
the President. “Some, such as
Vietnam, the nuclear arms race,
end the defiant policies of Com
munist China, are reflections of
deep political problems in the
community of nations. Others are
specific to the Organization itself
—such as the problems of sound
financing and peacekeeping; of
the minimum qualifications for
membership, particularly on the
part of small states; and of the
occasional tendency of many
members, in their impatience for
progress, to violate the proce
dures without which no institu
tion can long endure.
“Only the members can solve
these problems,” he told Johnson.
“Their conduct can make or
break the United Nations, for the
Charter is not self-executing. It
has always been, and still is, up
to each of the members, includ
ing the United States, to make
it work for the great purposes of
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* Moreover, the report focuses
attention on the fact which is
unique wth Goldberg’s tenure of
office—that he and he alone of
all the U. S. Ambassadors in the
past is exerting pressure on the
Congress to ratify human rights
conventions, and it looks as if
this is a battle which he may
win.
One more field in which Jus
tice Goldberg takes a stronger
stand than that of his Govern
ment is South Africa—in racism
there, in the South-West African
territory, on the bad judgment
handed down by the World
Court. Here he will be a good
influence on a far from adequate
policy of the State Department.
On the issue of Vietnam, Gold
berg reports a negative accomp
lishment, but he indicates that he
may still play a constructive role
in that crisis. He keeps the door
open for such an eventuality. In
this sphere, of course, he does
not make policy—no more than
anyone else in the United States
outsjde The White House. The
war in Vietnam is in the hands
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of one man—President Johnson,
and it is Goldberg’s fate that he
is tied to the President out of
loyalty and—let us say—out of a
complex of political skeins which
are engulfing the Democratic
Party and which may well lead
the UN Ambassador to new
fields of political achievements.
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