Roads to Peace and Security
| DOI | 10.1177/002070204600100407 |
| Date | 01 October 1946 |
| Author | F. R. Scott |
| Published date | 01 October 1946 |
| Subject Matter | Article |
Roads
to
Peace and
Security*
F.
R. Scott
n
world
affairs today
two
facts
stand
out
in
sharp
contrast.
One is
the
open
clash
of
interests
between
the
great
powers,
more
particularly
between
Russia
and
the
western states.
The
other
is
the
growth
of
the
United
Nations
organization
with
its
various
commissions
and
special
agencies.
Sharp diplomatic
battles
are
being
waged
while
the
building
of
the
international
structure
is
going
on.
Friction
and
tension
overlie
the work
of
construction.
Which
of
these
two
facts
is
the
more
significant?
Will
the
friction
destroy
the
world
organization,
or
will
the
organization
confine
and
reduce
the
friction
to
manageable
proportions?
This
is
what
the
common
people
of
the
world
are
asking
themselves.
This
is
the
crucial
problem.
Since
the
press
gives
more
space
to
the
clash
of
personalities
than
to
the
steady
development
of
new
institutions, the
general
impression
is
that
the
United
Nations
is
proving
unable
to
keep
the
peace.
There
are
indeed
many
grounds
for
discouragement.
Where
is
the
Grand
Alliance
that
won
the
war?
Once
the
uniting
force
of
a
common
danger
was
removed by the
defeat
of
the
Axis,
the
underlying
differences
appeared.
Success
in
the
primary
ob-
jective
of
military
victory
brought
to
the
surface
the
conflicts
which
had
been
temporarily
laid
aside.
Between
the great
powers
particularly,
a
wide
divergence
of
policies
became
evident.
In
Europe, in
the
near and
far
East,
the
unified
war
strategy
gave
place
to
a
diversity
of
reconstruction
plans. And
there
are
no
United
Nations
plans;
there
are
only
great
power
plans.
It
has
so
far
been
found
impossible
to
agree
even
on
treaties
of
peace
for
the
Axis
satellite
states;
at the
time
of
writing,
the
Paris
peace
conference has
made
little
progress. Here
too
it
seems
*Editor's
Note:
Professor Scott's
article
is
likewise based
upon
the
round
table
discussions
at
the
Annual
Conference
of
the
C.I.I.A.
(Toronto,
May
25-26,
1946).
Its
contents
is
not,
therefore,
exclusively
that
of
the
author
who
has
filled
unavoidable
gaps
in
the discussions
and
presented
the
subject
in
perspective.
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