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Show THE UNITED NAlIONS, THE HOUSEKEEPER OF THE GLOBAL VILLAGE gh our advanced techThe day of the Global Village has arrivedo Throu now know everytning nologies of transportation and communication we can going on our planet Earth. We are only a day•s travel from any given • spot on the globe. of international trave l, Nation state s that once could handle the affai rs exten t on regional and ~ommunication and economics now re1y to large ' international organizationse n9 It provides a forum The United Nations is an international organizatio an arena for the exercise for expression of want and need. , It also provides the newly emerging cular of power by individual nation state s. In parti found statehood. newly nations·with their unique emerging problems of er was to prevent war. The U..N. 's original purpose as outlined in the chart h human service, throug , Does the United Nations prevent war? Indirectlyto speci fic regions and some wars are pY"evented and others are 1imited da\ffl of time. the since ity boundaries. Human violence has been with human the meantime In come. to time It would .appear it will be with us for sow~ the business of staying alive goes on. e a full time business. In the twentieth century staying alive has becom business. Its specialized al The United Nations conducts much of the surviv so many.different peoples. to agencies provide the human services necessaryof distri butio n of food, health These agencies pick up the respo nsibi lities val. survi of care, housing, jobs and education, the tools the human condition The major thrus t o'f the United Nations today is to make usly not everyone Obvio tions. survivable--5 billio n individual human condi years ago they few a only where can be helped, but many, many people are, would have been ignored. The international Would you want to live in a world without the U.N.? history. Great stride s year 40 its in organ izatio n has co~e down a hmg roaa Somebody has ·to es. peopl rent diffe have been made fo relationships among· · a housekeep and coord inate this phenomena 1 progre:3s. the cooperative effor ts The U.Ne is assisted by regional organizations and United Nations has done the area of the individual nation states o In this that human beings make ber remem must a commendable and responsible job$ We organization. e peopl a is ns decisions and po1icya The United Natio decision and policy each For rs. Men are not infal lible , even world leade es. quenc conse of tance there is a price to be paid and accep 11 service, I will always As one of the few American beneficiaries of U.No human k you for calling us, of remember their reply to my request for help, "Than refugee famil y in course we will help. " They did. They helped me unite a the United State s--to know life, liber ty and the pursuit of happiness. SALT LAKE VOTER Madge H. Fairbanks Director of Communication, League of Women Voters Past President of the United Nations Assoc. of Utah October 1985 - 4 - |
