A suggestion in a letter in The Times regarding the
headquarters of the U.N.O.—the United Nations Organisation—shows consider-- able imagination. It has been tentatively, but by no means finally, agreed that the headquarters shall be on the other side of the Atlantic. If so, says the yAiter, what could be better than to create an enclave on the east coast, including a bit of the United States and a bit of Canada—the exact spot being necessarily where Maine adjoins New Brunswick. Nothing could be better, if the scat of the organisation is to be on the other side of the Atlantic. It is a virtue in the writer of the letter in question that he puts forward his proposal specifically as a second-best, recognising, as anyone taking a dis- passionate view must recognise, that the arguments for establishing the Organisation somewhere in Europe are overwhelming. They have been stated in this column, and there is no need to repeat them now, but the more they are considered the more decisive they appear. It is to America's credit—and America in that connection includes North and South—that it is not a continent where wars are apt or likely to arise. Europe is, and it is there that the imme- diate presence of the great peace Organisation is most to be desired. Even geography is not against that, for a seat not too far east in Europe is nearer to most South American capitals than Chicago, for example, would be. The Preparatory Commission, representing the members of U.N.O., will finally decide.
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