WORLD SECURITY

New Zealand Herald, Volume 82, Issue 25293, 29 August 1945, Page 7

WORLD SECURITY

COMMISSION AT WORK MEETINGS IN LONDON MANY ASPECTS DISCUSSED (Reed. 0.30 p.m.) LONDON. Aus?. 2S The press was admitted for the first time to the meeting of the executive committee of the United Nations Preparatory Commission yesterday when the committee discussed the terms of reference for ten sub-committees concerned with various aspects of the work of the new World Organisation. Ambassadors 'in London represented eight of 14 members of the committee, namely, the envoys of Brazil, Chile, France, China, Iran, Mexico, Holland and Russia. The Minister of State, Mr P. Noel-Baker, represented Britain. Further Meetings Ahead The first meeting of the executive committee was held on August 16, since when there have been nine private meetings.' No date has been fixed for completion of the committee's work, which is expected to last well into September. It has been decided to establish ten sub-committees, which will deal with the following matters: —General - Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council, Trusteeship Council, Court and legal problems, arrangements for the secretariat and other international officials, financial arrangements, relations with specialised agencies, League of Nations, and general. British Suggestions Amendments by the United Kingdom delegation to the proposed terms of reference for the sub-committees suggested that the Security Council subcommittee should'consider whether the Council should invite the first Assembly to initiate, or even draw up, an agreement for the immediate establishment of international control of the trade in arms, and that the Economic and Social Council sub-committee should consider what further specialised international organisations should be set up as part of the institutional machinery of the United Nations —for example, an international organisation on public health and control of dangerous drugs, and organisations connected with transport, tele-communications, broadcasting, etc. The United Kingdom delegation suggested that the Trusteeship Council should consider relations between the council and the International Labour Office in matters relating to labour conditions in territories placed under trusteeship. It also recommended that the Court and legal problems subcommittee should maintain contact with the arrangements being made for winding up the Permanent Court of International Justice. UNITED STATES ARMY INDUCTION TO CONTINUE WASHINGTON, Aujf. 27 Asserting that the Pacific situation retains many elements of danger, President Truman sent a letter to Senator Elmer Thomas and Mr Andrew J. May, chairmen of the Senate and House of Representatives Military Committees, urging Congress to continue inducting men aged 18 to 25 into the armed forces. "Our occupation forces in the Pacific and disorganised Europe must be held at the safe levels determined by Generals'Eisenhower and MacArtlmr, whose estimates total 1,200.000. exclusive of supporting troops in the United States and other areas," the President said. REDUCING THE NAVY PLANS IN UNITED STATES (Heed. 6.10 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 The Secretary of the Navy, Mr J. V. Forrestal, said last night that it was hoped to reduce the American naval personnel to 500,000 men and 50,000 officers within a year. This would mean the discharge of more than 2,800,000 men. BRITAIN AND NORWAY (Reed. 5.35 p.m.) LONDON, Aug- 27 The Norwegian Foreign Minister, M. Lie, has arrived in Britain from Oslo for conversations with the British Foreign Minister, Mr Ernest Bevin, on matters of mutual interest to Britain and Norwav.