CANADIAN ENVOY'S U.N. FANTASY

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• Publication Date: July 19, 1985
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Rq ' eu APPEARED
ON PAGE-
WASHINGTON TIMES
19 July 1985
Canadian envoy's
U NA fantasy
n Samuel Butler's satirical ARNOLD BEIC~ Soviet Union are ever heard. And
romance, Erewhon, (an ana- ARNOLD shouldn't it be that way) After
gram for nowhere), an educator all, of the 159 United Nations -
in this mythical land describes her states, the overwhelming maj memor-
how their system of education devel- Mrs. Kirkpatrick rejected itY are anti-democratic regimes
ops what he calls "the unreasoning this bi-polar view of the whose elections are rigged to main-
faculties:' world, the superpower tain a single party in
The teaching is done by a profes- rivalry image, because the United nently. Power perma-
sor of inconsistency and a professor States "is not interested in expansion Ambassador Lewis
of evasion. Having listened to Ste- of any kind, nor any sort of territo-crIIIII:!I11,IIII1I%, scoffed at
phen Lewis, Canadian Ambassador rial aggrandizement, nor do we seek
to the United Nations, deliver a to establish hegemony over other
hymn to the United Nations over' nations, or over the United Nations,
Canadian Broadcasting Corp. on a nor do we see ourselves inside the
recent Sunday, I would say that the United Nations as a leader of some
Socialist diplomat (in what passes Leam"
for Canada's Conservative govern- Canadian Ambassador Lewis
merit) is more than qualified to hold utterly ignored the Soviet veto
both professorial chairs, so highly record at the United Nations, a
developed are his "unreasoning fac- record which includes the following
ulties." In fact, he exemplifies a pas- recent events:
sage from Mr. Butler's novel: "It has ? In September 1983, the Soviet
been said that although God cannot Union vetoed a resolution critical of
alter the past, historians can." the destruction by a Soviet fighter of
The purpose of Ambassador a Korean Airlines passsenger plane,
Lewis's broadcast was to repeat once killing the 269 people aboard.
more his attack on the Heritage ? In February 1984, the Soviet
Foundation (although this time with- Union vetoed a draft resolution seek-
out naming any names), an influen- ing to establish a U.N. force to bring
tial research foundation which has peace to Lebanon.
been publishing devastating, eye- Mr. Lewis utterly ignored the
opening analyses of the work of the United Nations's refusal to legislate
United Nations He described the
detractors of the United Nations as against international terrorism; its
animated b insular bunker men- welcome to the U.N. rostrum of the
by gun-holstered Passer Arafat; its des-
talities." ignation of SWAPO, the terrorist
Mr. Lewis blames the problems of organization, as the official repre-
the United Nations on the dropping sentative of the Nambian people; or
of the bomb over Hiroshima by the the U.N. General Assembly vote
United States. This event, which defining Zionism as racist, Nazi, fas-
ended World War II, he says, fore cist, and whatnot.
shadowed th
d
e arms race, i
eological
polarization, the end of the U.S.-
Soviet entente, and "the emergence
of the super-powers in a way which
would dominate and bedevil interna-
tional politics for every decade to
come."
So here we have an excellent
example of what former Ambassa-
dor Jeane J. Kirkpatrick has called
"moral equivalence," namely the
left-liberal "impartial" view that it's
a bipolar world, dominated entirely
by the United States and the Soviet
Union, with one as bad as the other,
while the rest of the world sits help-
lessly by.
Omitted from Mr. Lewis's litany is
any reference to the Baruch Plan
whereby the United States offered to
share its atomic secrets in the inter-
ests of international control. Josef
Stalin rejected the Baruch Plan. Had
he accepted it, it might today be a
different world.
A mbassador Lewis seems to be
unaware that the United
Nations accepts the Soviet
Union's definition of "national liber-
ation movement." This means that
the world organization legitimizes
anti-colonial uprisings, never includ-
ing countries such as Poland,
Czechoslovakia, or Hungary that
oppose Soviet imperialism and that
are occupied to this day by foreign
troops, namely the Soviet Red Army.
It simply is not true, as Ambassa-
dor Lewis would have it, that the
United Nations "unleashes its frus-
trations against both West and East
with rhetorical regularity." Anyone
who has covered U.N. General
Assembly sessions knows that the
attacks on the West, especially the
United States, exceed exponentially
what few muted criticisms of the
w~~icn
ecretanat aescribe t e .
as me icient
a u
illiterate besotted b cron ism."
sal m assa or wis,
the UN., Secretariat "is not etter
nor worse mos o er in- erna-
ho instituhona arrangements'
In his assessment of the U.N. Sec-
retariat we have an exam a of
el either i norance o the real
issue, or giant tine ectua is on-
est~ ravamen o t e in
11111 ment o t e secretariat is t o
mse ion o operatives intot
Unit ations its regional commis-
sions an s ecia ize a enc
ray evc en o, a viet defec-
r w o ormer was N
n ersecretai eneral has writ-
ten t is a out a t o
nations s attac a to U.N. ers in ew or ea B ar-
an to ce
in eneva eit er are agents or
assigne to irate igence gathering.
ere ave een innumera-bTe"cases
of . oviet em ovees in he N. Sec-
retariat a ~`"-`-~U.
pprehendedforespionage.
Of 47 Soviet diplomats and offi.
cials expelled from France in April
1983 by the Mitterrand Socialist gov-
ernment, six worked in UNESCO A
lar a roportion of Soviet national
accre ited to the U.N. Economic and
ocia ommission or Asia and the
Pacific
are intelli ence ollec
tor
s covering t e A N co ?ntr
and r
Fn A
Thailand The Soviet Permanent
ieseesentative accredited to this
U.N. body, Bosi Nikolayev, was
named publicly in August 1983 as
the head of the KGB in Bangkok.
I could go on with more, but is it
conceivable that the Canadian
ambassador to the United Nations is
unaware of these irrefutable accu-
sations against the UN Secretariat?
Ambassador Lewis argued that
the United Nations serves a purpose
in bringing together ideological
opponents at least to talk to each
other "on the principle that talking
is infinitely better than shooting."
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