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New York Democratic state chairman William McKeon thinks Governor Rockefeller can be defeated if he can be tagged as a Republican. That’s a big if.

Add to the list of prominent American critics of recent UN actions: James F. Byrnes, who belongs to the group in the Roosevelt Administration that first conceived of the UN, and who was appointed by President Truman first Secretary of State and then Supreme Court Justice. “The United Nations of today is not the organization we sponsored in 1945,” he now concludes. The addition of 54 member states since its founding has greatly changed its purposes, Mr. Byrnes believes, for while it was founded “to maintain international peace and security,” the new Afro-Asian states seem to think its primary purpose is to promote colonial independence. If we are to continue our UN membership, he says, we must enforce “the provision of the charter that prohibits the United Nations from interfering in domestic affairs of a state. We must also place less reliance upon the United Nations and more reliance upon NATO and other regional organizations of our allies pledged to the preservation of the independence of free peoples.”

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New York Democratic state chairman William McKeon thinks Governor Rockefeller can be defeated if he can be tagged as a Republican. That’s a big if.

Add to the list of prominent American critics of recent UN actions: James F. Byrnes, who belongs to the group in the Roosevelt Administration that first conceived of the UN, and who was appointed by President Truman first Secretary of State and then Supreme Court Justice. “The United Nations of today is not the organization we sponsored in 1945,” he now concludes. The addition of 54 member states since its founding has greatly changed its purposes, Mr. Byrnes believes, for while it was founded “to maintain international peace and security,” the new Afro-Asian states seem to think its primary purpose is to promote colonial independence. If we are to continue our UN membership, he says, we must enforce “the provision of the charter that prohibits the United Nations from interfering in domestic affairs of a state. We must also place less reliance upon the United Nations and more reliance upon NATO and other regional organizations of our allies pledged to the preservation of the independence of free peoples.”