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    "ocrText": "-3-\nmost important of the peace settlements have not been agreed\nupon and, largely because of Soviet abuse of the veto, the\nUnited Nations has not yet become so fully effective in achiev-\ning collective security as had been hoped. The statement con-\ntinued:\n\"Since the signing of the Charter it has become\nprogressively clearer that serious misconceptions\nprevail in the minds of the leaders of the Soviet Union\nconcerning Western civilization and concerning what\nis possible and what is impossible in the relations\nbetween the Soviet Union and the world at large. A\nmajor contribution which the United Nations and which\nUnited States foreign policy can make is to dispel\nthese misconceptions by means consistent with the\nCharter. \" 1\nCounselor Bohlen on the Pact and the U.N. -- Counselor\nCharles E. Bohlen, in an address of March 23, took up the\nquestion \"Why is such a treaty necessary when the Charter of\nthe United Nations was conceived as a means of assuring pro-\ntection and security to all the nations of the world?\" He\nsaid that the answer may be found in (1) the chronicle of\nevents since the end of hostilities in World Var II, (2) the\nfate of Eastern Europe in that period, (3) the fact that\npeace has not brought security or banished fear from the world,\nand (4) the record of Soviet obstruction in the United Nations\nitself. The policies and attitude of the Soviet Union, he\nARCHIVES 'NATIONAL RECORDS AND\nsaid, have not permitted the U.N. to establish throughout\nSERVICES\nthe world the condition of security for which it was designed.\nHe denied that the North Atlantic Pact is provocative and\naggressive in relation to the Soviet Union, pointedly adding\nthat \"this will continue to be asserted by certain Governments,\norganizations and persons who do not wish to see confidence,\nsecurity and recovery return to the world. \" 2\nAmbassador Austin on the Pact as a Deterrent to Soviet\nAggression. -- Ambassador Warren R. Austin declared that\nduring the four years since the end of hostilities the Soviet\nUnion has used the Red Army as an instrument for establishing\nMoscow-directed Communist dictatorships in country after coun-\ntry, thus violating repeatedly the pledge of all U.N. member\nstates in signing the Charter to \"refrain in their inter-\nnational relations from the threat or use of force.\" One of\nthe major\n1\n\"Department of State publication 3462 (General Foreign\nPolicy Series 7): ; also printed in the Bulletin, March 20, pp.\n342-350.\n<Press release 178, March 23 (to be printed in the Bulle-\ntin,Apr. 3)."
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