CANADIAN ENVOY'S U.N. FANTASY

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• Publication Date: July 19, 1985
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shadowed the arms race, ideological
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.
n
nor any sort o territo-
of evasion. Having listened to Ste Y
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 team:'
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:
? In September 1983, the Soviet
sage from Mr. Butler's novel: "It has Union vetoed a resolution critical of
been said that although God cannot the destruction by a Soviet fighter of
alter the past, historians can:" a Korean Airlines passsenger plane,
The purpose of Ambassador
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 against international terrorism; its
detractors of the United Nations as welcome to the U.N. rostrum of the
animated by "insular bunker men- gun-holstered Lasser 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.
ops what he calls the unreasoning ions are rigged to main-
faculties." world, the superpower tain a single party in power perma
The teaching is done by a profes- rivalry image, because the United nently.
sor of inconsistency and a professor States is not interested in expansion Ambassador Lewis scoffed at
of an
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o and ian envoy's U.N. fantasy
are ever heard. And
romance, Samuel Butler's (anir ca ana- ARNOLD iARNBEIC IMAM why Soviet Union
n (
it be that way? After
gram for r nowhere), an an educator all, of the 159 United Nations mem-
in ram this f mythical land describes - ber states, the overwhelming major-
how their system of education devel rs. Kirkpatrick rejected Y are anti-democratic regimes
11 this bi-polar view of the whose elect'
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
isms w is
Secretariat as "meek ent cor ?N.
illiterate besotted b cronyism:';
Nonsense said Am ass, or ewes,
the U.N., Secretariat "is not etter
nor worse than most o er in erna-
tiona institution, arrangements."
In his assessment of the U.N. Sec-
retariat . ave an exam a of
er wi u i norance of the real
issue, or atant inte ectual dishon-
esty. a ravamen o t e indict-
ment o t e secretariat is t o
insertion o operatives into the
Hite d atV ions, its regional cotntnis-
sions an specia ize agencies.
nrkaay ~hevchenko, a Soviet defec-
or w o former y was U.N.
undersecretary-General has writ-
ten that about: a the Soviet
nationals attac a to U. .ea uar-
ers in New or an t e . o ice
in eneva either are KGB a ents or
assigned to inte igence gathering.
ere ave een innumera~lecases
of Soviet emp ovees m the U N, Sec-
retariat apprehended for spionage.
Of 47 Soviet diplomats and offi-
cials expelled from France in April
1983 by the Mitterrand Socialist gov-
ernment, six worked in UNESCO. A
large proportion of Soviet nationals
accredited to the U.N. Economic and
Social Commission or Asia and the
Pacific are Kup_intelliL
collec-
tors covering the ASEAN countries
and Thailand. The Soviet Permanent
Representative 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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This supposedly unexceptionable
statement was refuted by Dean Ach-
eson, former U.S. secretary of state,
who wrote in his memoirs:
"I have heard people who should
know better ... say happily, 'As long
as we keep them talking, they're not
fighting.' Nothing could be -more
untrue; they are fighting. They are
adopting a tactic specifically -pre-
scribed by Lenin to delay the crises
while demoralizing and weakening
the enemy."
T he ritualistic slogan, better
talk than fight, was derided
recently in the American
Spectator by Vladimir Bukovsky, the
Soviet dissident writer,- who asked:
"Can anyone prove that to 'keep
talking' is better than to 'quit talk-
ing?' Are there any facts to support
this rule? Did anyone ever try not to
'keep talking?' Of course not. Unfor-
tunately, this 'rule' is not simply a
matter of innocent stupidity, for it
implies, first of all, that the organic
differences between democratic and
totalitarian societies can be resolved
by a negotiated settlement. This
misleading notion misrepresents
the East-West conflict as a sort of
tragic misunderstanding that can be
cleared up only if we 'engage in con-
structive dialogue; 'try to under-
stand each other, 'sit down and talk,'
or perform some other rite of liberal
nonsense calculated to lay blame on
the West for not trying to 'under-
stand' the poor Soviets."
Wake up, Ambassador Lewis. You
are or should be the Canadian
Ambassador to the United Nations,
not the U.N. Ambassador to Canada.
Arnold Beichman, visiting
scholar at the Hoover Institution, is
aformer United Nations correspond-
ent and author of The 'Other' State
Department.
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