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“ United Nations reply to + Enc,osure FA Stockholm, Sweden. April 24, 1947. Despatch Wo. 449. Onl LRe a fine position to serve the world in a truly great way. Her scientists, her technologists, her economists and her businessmen stand at the forefront of knowledge. Untouched by war, Sweden can give dispassionate advice to both the US and Russia. One of your foremost economists, Professor Gunnar ifyrdal, has done much.forus Americans, and we have been very much interested in his efforts to promote trade with Russia. TI know that he is not so popular here right now, but I pay tribute te men of insight and courage no matter what their standing may be at the moment. t I was told 4n England that in the Secretariat of the United WJations there were euployed 250 fuericans, 170 Britishers, 60 to 70 Frenchnea but only 4 Russians. Spealcing o the Russian Am- bassador.to Sweden I asked hims "\ihy doesn't Russia get more men into the United Nationa’ Secretariat? hy doesn't Russia come in wholeheartedly into the International sank for Reconstruction, or into the Wisco?" ‘ (The speaker then expressed tha hope that sd @ time in future there would te a string of airports and roadways connecting North and South America with Siberia and the Lastern Hemisphere, and that there would be free travel to sicscow, yes, even to stockholme He said that he had montioned this onca to tiolotev, whe had re- plied: "The day will come", Added Lr. Wallaces "An apocalyptic vision Long delayed". ) i Wie hope that sweden on political probiems will bs a source of conciliation. Swedca, standing iwidway in the path of any possible Third World War, caanot afford in any way to be lukewarm in any qn which Russia and the United States are members. Only in one world and a strong United Nations can peace be found, but peace Can never agein be negative or passive. Peace must be positive, more exciting than war. Those who serve the United Nations should be Looked on as the foremost citizens of the world, giving their lives and their careers to the cause’ of peace. There are those who gay that the world cannot continue to be one-third capitalistic, one-third socialistic, and one-third commnistic, and that therefore there must be war. I have ex- pressod my indignation over this criminal conception in such a way t wy fellow citizens have asked whether there was no means for having ny passport recalled. It may be that I will return home to em sooner than they wish. \ I hope that the Swedes in the United Nations may accolerate the work within the Economic and Social Councils, whose important tasks have come to be overshadowed by the strifos within the Seourity Council, The next General Asseubly ought to make availe able 4 eons