Abstract

Editorials

By decreasing tensions at high political level, the Geneva Conference in Geneva, Switzerland, made possible increased cultural, scientific, and economic contacts between the Russians and the Western world. The Geneva spirit has permeated the United Nations (UN), tending to free energies heretofore locked up in that organization by the cold war. This is particularly true with regard to the admission of sixteen new members, a step which makes the world organization more representative and thereby increases its power to maintain world peace. The Geneva Conference, moreover--and this despite the disappointing results of the second, or foreign ministers' sessions-gave new impetus to the UN's search for solution to two other problems: disarmament and colonialism.