At the Dumbarton Oaks conference where the U.N. was formulated and negotiated, Dutch foreign Minister Van Kleffens moves about the conference with conciliatory stubbornness.

What does it all add up to? Is San Francisco building the next generation’s freedom from war? Or is the conference merely a jealous game of power, a dusty finish for the hopes and sacrifices of millions? Of a thousand answers, one of the best balanced and shrewdest is that…