European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 14, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 columns Flora Lewis the stars and stripes thursday. November 14. 19b5 at 40, United nations has aged but not matured Thurk Anu no in h m s for argument Aji inst the widespread ill Mcnol that tin i nit cd nations Short it has not matured. There Are Jurd grounds for reset inf the Wisit eyed claim that ils founder were utopians whose vision was Betras etl that it was born in Russ inn Cenec and de spoiled by a Dirl world such idealized nostalgia falsifies the record of Hou the Rojiani Ati Ort was established and div crib re upon Sibilio Tor improving its behaviour. The people who gathered in san i Francisco to write the Charier in i a had no illusions about War and peace there was exude men and Hope because world War it was ending and the aggressors were being vanquished but there was Clear understanding thai it would t be to keep the peace that there were still grave tensions and that the temptation to use Force would persist. The delegates were keenly aware of the failure of the of nations established after world War i. Their guiding thought was to Correct its worst mistakes. They All understood thai the United nations would Only really work if the major Powers were Tri agreement and thai while it might prevent or Slop Small wars it could t override Dis Putes Between big Powers. before the charter conference started it was almost derailed by a soviet american quarrel. Stalin demanded three seals in he Guise of Sepa nue memberships for the Ukraine and byelorussian alongside the soviet Union. Presi Dent Roosevelt bad died shortly before without telling vice president Truman he had secret agreed at Yalta to the three soviet seats. Charles Lio Hlen who had been Roost Vii s Mier Priit. A is the on Hung american who could confirm the pledge. Notes of it were found in Roosevelt s private papers. A Nikki i Romko was in san i Francisco As a Young Diplomat deferring to the icy foreign minister Vya Chesl i Molotov and his Deputy the Andrei Vas husks. Whose chief experience in diplomacy had been As prosecutor in the Moscow purge trials. Stalin made no pretence that the soviet Union would be a helpful partner. The conference nearly broke Down Halfway through because he arrested i poles sent to negotiate in mos cow under another Yalta agreement. They were freed but rearrested a few years later when the communists consolidated Power in Warsaw. A thai atmosphere. The people whose leadership and vision stood out were men from smaller countries. Her Bert Vatt of Australia Jan Masaryk of Czechoslovakia. Paul Henri Spaak of Belgium. I Equill Padilla of Mexico. 1 it a Lime there an Effort to establish a standing Tiu Siw Peapos ck6&bovorbftr whits cat Moth chocolate cak6 and 80 for chomwmw6 with Muffi fake. . Force let might Al least be Able to put out Brush fires. U never came into being probably a Well because it might have provoked More troubles than it could have solved. True no one then imagined the proliferation of states that has bloated the United nations. They were encouraged into existence by the charter s one state one vote Rule. Thirty two members have under a million population and the total contribution of More than half its members amounts to Only 2 percent of the , budget. A fool of the founding delegates were from Europe and latin America. One of the few others was Prince Faisal later King of saudi Arabia. He was the curried exotic of the conference a great favorite of san Francisco hostesses and he scam eur bewildered by the proceedings. There was no third world Hen but there was a deep sense of the responsibility of old nations. Since then there has been no european a and no use of nuclear weapons. But there have been about 150 wars in other parts of the world and every one of the five atomic Powers has been involved in fighting somewhere. It would t have occurred to the War weary founders to say what Imelda Marcos of the Philippines told the general Assembly the other Day. The problems con fronting the world she said have their roots in injustice intolerance greed and dominance by the she should know. They understood the conflict of Naiomi interests and ambitions. They did t aspire to remaking Mankind or even politics just to find peaceful ways to sort out controversies. As undersecretary general Brian Urquhart said in a tribute to the late Secretary general Dag Hammarskjold. The Noble words of the charter about the Primacy of the task of maintaining International peace and Secu Rity were not Idle rhetoric but the fruit of bitter expert the United nations has t regressed at 40, it just has t summoned the will to transcend its difficult beginnings. C new York time James Kilpatrick Texas congressmen set sights on arts Grant abuses l s have a round of applause if you please. Umyn cd his charge with specific examples. These sex inc whal s hot is not Only a comic Tai for to Rookie republicans from Texas Tom delay of Amplus arc Loo lewd for publication in this family our present culture it projects into the i i r sugar land and Richard Armey of Denton. In their firm icbms in inc , they have managed to do what older members have failed to do they May have curbed sonic if the abuses of the National endowment for the arts. Note the doubtful verb. They May have curbed this Noncy Tju rendering outfit. The abuses of the Nea s Grant program Are so pervasive and so outrageous that effective curbs probably Are beyond any congressman s reach but the two texans at least have done something. Armey won an amendment to the Nea s authorization Bill thai will compel some sort of minimum accountability from grantees and Dclay took a Small but useful step toward halting the cronyism that has plagued this costly and unwarranted program. During the course of committee hearings and floor debate. made a convincing Case borne of the worst abuses Nuoc occurred in the endowment s Grants to during 1984, roughly 1,100 persons submitted what they regarded As poetry to the Nea. Vou will find it unbelievable bul 126 of them were awarded Grants of is 2.500 each. That is your Money the Nea paid out. I make bold to say. On the basis of 60 years spent in Reading and writing that our nation houses no More than half a dozen poets whose stuff is Worth print ing. To judge from the examples that appear in our tonic magazines that estimate is perhaps Loo High. Delay charges that some of our lax Money subsidizes poets whose poems arc obscene. He has Doc aumente ample e i newspaper they cannot even be printed in the congressional record. You will have to Lake my word for in. I am like jul slice so cart i know obscenity when Sec it and this is it. And this stuff is nol even artistic obscenity. Some of it is Mere Graffiti dirty words scrawled on subway cars. One woman got a Grant for writing Aboul the pleasure she found in Oral sex it read for All the world like inc hard Core porn that appears every month in the Raunchy columns of gallery Playboy and Penthouse. Why in the world arc our taxes frittered away on these frivolities it is because Many of the applicants arc con artists. And Many of the Nea s judges Are quacks. The judges Are scared out of i hair wits that if they Call Malar key rna Markcy they will be accused of being anti intellectual. They suffer from the same wacko syndrome thai affects the world of an in which any old contrivance of plywood Rusly Iron and pingpong bails qualifies As sculpture. Bad poetry is Only one area in which inc taxpayers arc ripped off. In the Field of design arts a woman in Cambridge. Mass., got a $20.000 Grant in 1982 to support production of a Book to be entitled reverberations about How culture values arc manifested in physical design and How design reverberates Back to her Book is to serve As a design in her application she wrote design is change focused by if life is a dance design is in i l commentary on of pres Cal l inc it is the Crystal Ball whose message we try to i say that is spinach and i say the hell with it. Under Armey s amendment Post award evaluations must be made and the grantees must submit an accounting of How they spent the Public s Money. Under s amendment no applicant for an Nea Grant May sit on the panel judging his application. Heaven knows that is lilt a enough to ask. But some of the old boys and girls on the Nea s panels know How backs Are scratched. The trouble Al Bollom is that there is no constitutional Sanction whatever for these individual Grams. Only by the most tortured construction of the general welfare clause May justification be found. To contend thai a Grant of $12.300 to a dirty Little creep writing dirty Litile poems in some fashion promotes the Gen eral welfare is to engage in Buncombe Balderdash an Sham. Perhaps a Case can be made a poor Case but Al Casl \ Case for Nea Grants to symphony orchestral established and the like. These might doubtfully of $200 billion t possibly be defended. Be constr cd As Al a Lime o deficits the other subsidies cannot. They ought to be wiped Oul. The ool Slont in in column a i no lob � Fri mint mow01 the Start it to of Row or la in Ltd St in of Tran in
