WORLD CHARTER.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 65, Issue 191, 26 May 1945, Page 3

WORLD CHARTER.

APPEASEMENT- ISSUE. SAN FRANCISCO, May 24. Greece proposed in the committee on the formation of the Economic and Social Council at the United Nations conference, that the council should supervise the reconstruction of warravaged lands. The drafting sub-com-mittee was requested to put the proposal in proper form in order to enable a vote to he taken at the next committee meeting. The sub-committee is also considering a French suggestion that the Economic Council should try to promote the orderly distribution of raw materials throughout the world. The French claimed that this would promote full employment among the nations. The economic committee lias agreed to Include the word “educational,” as

j well as “cultural,” in the definition of j its objectives. , . Norway failed to have' an 'anti-; ! appeasement clause written into the World Charter. Czechoslovakia, remembering the Munich appeasement of 1938, supported Norway, but Great Britain, the United States, Mexico, and the Ukraine led the opposition, contending that the sense of the Norwegian proposal was implicit in the prin- ; ciples and purposes of the proposed : world security organisation, j The United Press says Norway obviously feared that the Big Five’s veto ] powers might he an instrument whereby a belligerent Power could lie appeased. If one or more of the Big Five voted for any measure to halt a potential aggressor they might be able 1 to institute appeasement measures as Britain and France did on behalf of ; Germany during the Czech crisis. | The correspondent of the New' York ; “Herald-Tribune” says Russia is no | longer insisting in the trusteeship j committee that the Security Council j he given the sole power to designate j strategic areas. The United States I view has been accepted, leaving the j designation to the administering naj tion after consultation with other ini terested Powers, and also the Trustee* i ship Council. Russia, in return, is expected to receive a permanent seat on the Trusteeship Council. ]'