GREECE UNDER FIRE
SECURITY COUNCIL TALKS POLAND ABETS RUSSIA (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) NEW YORK, July 17. Dr. Oscar Lange (Poland) resumed the debate on the Balkans in the Security Council to-day. He joined Russia in vigorously attacking Greece. Dr. Lange attacked the majority report of the United Nations’ Balkan Investigating Commission, which had blamed Albania, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia for the Greek border disturbances.
Dr. Lange said the commission’s conclusions sounded as if they had been drafted for political purposes. Greece was wholly to blame for the present disorders, and he demanded the formation of a new Coalition Government, new elections, and the immediate withdrawal of foreign military personnel. Dr. Lange said the Security Council should insist that Greece end its seven-year-old state of war with Albania, as that was one of the causes of the current strife.
Dr. Jose Vilfan (Yugoslavia) supported Russia and Poland in condemning Greece. Dr. Vilfan said the border patrol plan proposed by the United States would violate the United Nations charter and would be practically futile. He declared that the realisation of the United States resolu tion would mean the weakening of the United Nations. Dr. Vilfan said the American proposal for an exchange of Albanian and Macedonian minorities in the Balkans was particularly unacceptable to Yugoslavia. Russia Attacks U.S. Plan Mr A. A. Gromyko (Russia) attacked the United States’ plan for a frontier commission to patrol the troubled Balkan frontiers. He said Russia could not agree to ' such a commission, which would be a sharp breach of the United Nations charter. None of the Balkan nations would be bound to comply with the orders of the commission, even if one were established by the Council. Mr Herschel Johnson (United States) urged that the general debate be closed so that the Council might reach a decision. Dr. Lange, chairman of the Council, ruled that the debate would be closed only if there were no speakers when the Council reassembled to-morrow morning
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 67, Issue 237, 19 July 1947, Page 5
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