AGAINST POLAND

Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 101, 1 May 1945, Page 6

AGAINST POLAND

CONFERENCE VOTE

N.Z. Supports Russia In

Protest

Rec. 2. SAN FRANCISCO, April 30

The United Nations Conference steering committee has voted to invite the Argentine, the Ukraine and White .Russia into its sessions, but has brushed aside without a ballot Russia's effort to bring in the Polish Lublin Government. The vote favoured the Argentine by 29 to 5.

M. Molotov, leader of the Soviet delegation, announced that he will make a fight on the floor before the full conference against the immediate admission of the Argentine.

The committee reported unanimously for the admission of White Russia and the Ukraine. Adverse votes against the Argentine were recorded by Russia, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Belgium and New Zealand.

The steering committee's report now goes before the plenary session of the delegates. It is understood that M. Molotov will not press the Polish issue when another defeat is obvious. The New Zealand vote on the Argentine was cast with Russia. . " . The Russian objections to the admittance of the Argentine were so vigorous that M. Molotov intimated that he would maKe a public statement on the Soviet position at the next plenary session. The Argentine question first came before the executive committee, which voted by nine to three in favour of admitting the Argentine, with one member absent and China r abstaining. Czechoslovakia and "iugoslavia voted with Russia. M. Molotov protested in the strongest language and continued to protest at the steering committee meeting. The delegates reported that he took the stand that the Polish and Argentine cases were parallel. If Poland were to be rejected because its Government was not representative, the Argentine should be rejected on the same grounds. Furthermore, if the representative nature of the Argentine Government was not the issue the same argument should not be raised against Warsaw. China's abstinence from voting at the executive committee is believed to have been influenced by the fact that she has no diplomatic relations with the Argentine, which never recognised the Chungking regime. The New Zealand Prime Minister, Mr. Fraser, bitterly opposed inviting the Argentine, declaring that it had no more right to sit at San Francisco than the Franco Government.