24 SEPTEMBER 1948, Page 5

If the deeds and aims of the United Nations fail

to get known throughout the world it will not be the fault of people who believe both in those [Ams and in the power of the printed word. The League of Nations had not, so far as I know, any unofficial publica- tion devoted solely to its activities. The United Nations now, as its third General Assembly meets, has three. A United Nations World has been going in the United States since February of last year. A few months later a similar magazine, Viirlds Horisont, appeared in Scandinavia. And this month, though dated next, we have another United Nations World starting in Great Britain, with articles by the Foreign Secretary and Mr. Philip Noel-Baker, Bertrand Russell and others, an attractive cover and a general air of having come to stay. It costs is. 6d. If enough people will buy

it monthly it certainly will stay, and form one link in a chain of similar organs, which it is hoped will soon reach round the world.