The Arab countries called upon the United Nations assembly, now in session in Paris, to look into the charge that France was oppressing the Moroccan people. The motion was referred to the steering committee which voted not to place the matter on the agenda. The vote was 6 to 4, with four abstentions. Among the nations which voted for European imperialism was the United States.

This was the first time that the United States has sought to keep such an item off the agenda; hitherto the American position has been that any complaint ought to be examined and debated on its merits. The conclusion that must be drawn from this shameful incident is that the United Nations is not the defender of liberty but an instrument of oppression. The United States under Acheson and Truman has become nothing but a tool for British and French imperialism. [Sec. of State Dean Acheson and President Harry Truman]

The policy which our administration is following is stupid as well as immoral. It starts with the false premise that the friendship of England and France is so important to us that we must sacrifice honor and principle to hold it. The plain fact is that we can get along without English and French support but the English and the French are dependent upon us. They are under constant threat from Russia; the Russians can’t invade our country because they have no means of crossing the oceans in force. Needless to say, the Russians took the Arabs’ side.

Mr. Acheson has succeeded in persuading the Moslem world and the colonial world that the United States is an enemy and international communism is a friend. We are backing the French in Indo-China and the British in Malaya and Egypt, [Vietnam, Malaysia] in direct violation of the fundamental principle upon which our country was founded and in opposition to our national interest in maintaining friendly relations with the peoples of Asia and Africa whose products we need. The United Nations, instead of being the instrument of peace that we were promised, has become the agency thru which the power of the United States is mobilized for oppression. Surely this is the blackest chapter in the history of American diplomacy.