\ er path towards world government solely by great powers. Far as the smail states have gone in the subordination of their external autonomy to the United Nations Organization, some of them will object to closer union. Hr. Herbert Evatt, Aus~ -tralian Minister of External Affairs, in a speech made in New York on November 27, 19145, issued a caveat which will probably be echoed by statesmen of other middle or small nations, World government, he is reported to have said, if it means some form of federal union, is "impossible of acceptance. The plain fact is that the nations and peoples of the world are not yet prepared to surrender the rights of self-government in order to be governed by a central executive and a central legislature on which most of them wouldtare,a tiny and very insis- nificant representation," '! 3 The official response, then, to the snarrorctoebos atom bomb, is not an inclination to scrap the San Francisco Charter and to substitute for it a federal world constitution, but rather to use the machinery already under construc tion for the solution of what is admittedly the greatest international problem of our time, The program announced at Washinzton by the American, British and Canadian governments was concurred in by the Soviet Union at the Conference of Foreign Ministers held at Moscow in December, 195, With only the Philippines protesting the somewhat cavalicr manner in which the General Assembly of the United Nations was being instructed by the great powers, that body, sinking any procedural pride in its desire for an effective control systen, adopted on Jan- vary 24, 1946, the formal resolution asked of it. Ever since the Truman-Attlee~King announcement on November 15, 1945, the suggestion had been heard that any agency set up under the United Nations to deal with the subject of atomic energy should be appointed by and responsible to the General Assembly rather than the Secuvity Council, put forward to support this contention, tte New York Times, November 28, 19,5. A variety of arguments were One was the universal interest not only