WASHINGTON: Senators conferred with President Roosevelt ... on plans for the organisation of the United Nations on war-time collaboration and peace-time aims. They reported that an “agreement on the broad objectives” was reached.

The group laid before President Roosevelt a proposed Senate resolution to take the lead in organising the United Nations immediately behind a programme to make full use of all their military and economic resources in carrying on the war. The resolution also proposed the setting up of a machinery for peaceful adjustment of international disputes and the creation of a United Nations Military Force to quell any further attempts at aggression. Mr. Harry Hopkins and Mr. James F Byrnes were present at the meeting, which lasted nearly two hours.

While Mr. Eden did not attend the conference, observers felt he could be expected to take great interest in the proposal. While on Capitol Hill some Senators welcomed the proposal, Senator Wheeler, commenting, declared that he did not “think the Senate should be committed to it at the present time. I do not think we ought to commit the country on just what we are going to do until we find out what Russia is going to do. I am not sure that the people of this country will want to police the world.” — Dawn Delhi

Published in Dawn, March 16th, 2018