Archive Report
Archive Report
Proposals for Changes in World Organization
American Rearmament to Strengthen Security
In creating the United Nations, the peoples of the Allied nations reaffirmed their faith that an international organization could be established which would be able “to maintain international peace and security” and make it possible to eliminate war as a means of settling international disputes. Now, less than three years after the United Nations Charter was signed at San Francisco, June 26, 1945, the United States is faced with the necessity of maintaining a military establishment over ten times as large as before World War II, and devoting over a third of all federal government expenditures to national defense.1
Since United States rearmament is considered necessary because of threatened aggression by another member of the United ...