TRULY DEMOCRATIC FORUM ESTABLISHED FOR FREE DISCUSSION

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXIV, Issue 13988, 16 February 1946, Page 3

TRULY DEMOCRATIC FORUM ESTABLISHED FOR FREE DISCUSSION

.NATIONS IMBUED WITH LOVE OP PEACE lE AND DESIRE FOR CO-OPERATION

London, February 15, last night the Unitecl Naticms Assembly held the final ■of its session in London and did not break up until meeting hour a f t2r midnight. Despite the late hour, neaW a ffa n er ies and bursts of applause reflected public croWC Tif what Mr Attlee in his closing speech described as jjjfgfSSt *** a Messing 1 that the Assembly’s work was done in public, Attlee said that in this country they had always held public t < to be the foundation of democracy and a full guarantee d fStv and justice against oppression. 0 Coresident of the Assembly (M. Spaak) said he had seen 6 51 delegations imbued with a sincere love of peace and al nine desire for co-operation and friendship. He paid 9 1 tribute to the work of the acting secretary-general and 0 f other officials. S< Mr Lie- the secretary-general, declared that in the General mblv they had established a truly democratic forum for ♦tf free discussion of the great problems of our time. 06 Earlier yesterday the Assembly unanimously accepted the Five resolution that all measures be taken to avart famine ■ any parts of the world. Representatives of country after in “fry pledged themselves to attack the food problem with vigour and determination.