UNITED NATIONS ORGANISATION

Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24742, 6 December 1945, Page 5

UNITED NATIONS ORGANISATION

PLANS FOR MEETING OF ASSEMBLY

GOOD PROGRESS BEING MADE (Special Correspondent fN.Z.P A.I (Rec. 9.45 ajn.) LONDON, Dec. 5. Good progress, it is reported, is being made by the eight committees of the Preparatory ' Commission of the United Nations Organisation; Representatives .of 51 countries are examining the recommendations of the 14 countries that constitute the executive committee, and all the discussions deal essentially with the machinery for the first meeting of the Assembly next month.

The general atmosphere is said to he one of "smooth co-operation and goodwill on all sides." and it is likely that the commission's work will be concluded in a fortnight's time. It seems unlikely that the atomic bomb will be discussed. The implication is that the establishment of an atomic bomb commission will be relegated to the first Assembly, and that the question may therefore not be raised until the middle of February. The question of the site of the United Nations' headquarters is still being discussed. A recommendation that it should be in the. United" States is supported by two of the Big ThreeAmerica and Russia. Recent debates in the House of Lords, and the House of Commons have shown that Britain regards the United Nations Organisation as the cornerstone of, its international policy, but a question that is being asked is, to what extent the organisation should be responsible for the making of a peace treaty. In spite of suggestions, including that made by President Truman that further meetings of the Big Three are not required, there is a feeling that the United Nations Organisation should not be handicapped, as was the League of Nations, by being linked up with peace treaties, which must inevitably be resented by, the defeated countries.

"The Times," in a leading article, declares: "The making of peace cannot be the business of the United Nations Organisation any more than it was the business of. the League of Nations. Rather than showing that there should not be further meetings of the Big Three, the breakdown of the London conference appeared greatly to reinforce the need for periodical, regular consultations between the responsible leaders themselves.

"Present relationships caused by the atomic bomb might have been avoided if machinery had been devised for a three-Power meeting. It is imperative, in British interests, to call for the maintenance o'f intimate co-operation, both with the United States and the Soviet.

"The British purpose, as Mr Bevln has said, must be to utilise the United Nations Organisation, and to stretch it to the limit of its capacity from a security point of view. But that limit will be reached at a point far short of British security unless the organisation is itself built so that the United Nations stand or fall together." New Zealand has a delegation of six attending the Preparatory Commission. Dr. R. M. Campbell. Acting-High Commissioner, is chairman of the administration and budgets committee; Mr J. V. Wilson is a member of the trusteeship committee; Mr B. Turner is a member of the economic and social committee; Mr C. Aikman is a member of the international court of justice and legal questions committee; Mr R. Miller is a member of the trusteeship ana information arrangements committee; and Mr C. K. Knowles is on the committee dealing with the windingup of the League of Nations and th« transfer of some of its functions.

PARTICIPATION BYJU.S. bill approved by ..-.senate''

(Rec. 9 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Dec. 5. The United States Senate passed and sent to the House of Representatives legislation approving of United Statesparticipation in the United Nations Organisation. The- Senate rejected a proposal requiring the President to ask Congress for authority each time American troops are furnished to the Security Council. The approved legislation would require the President to obtain Congressional approval only on the numbers and types of armed forces to be supplied.

SECRETARY-GENERALS POST RULING BY PREPARATORY COMMISSION

(Rec. 11 p.m.) LONDON. Dec. 4. , On the ground that the secretary-

general of the United Nations Organisation was the confidant of many Governments, the committee of the Preparatory Commission accepted a Canadian proposal that it was not desirable that any member should offer him—at any rate immediately on his retirement—a position in which his confidential information might be a serious embarrassment to other members.

A special committee which is considering where the permanent" headquarters of the United Nations Organisation should be located agreed that the organisation must have a radio station' and airport. Unrestricted and uninterrupted contact between the United Nations Organisation and all countries should be maintained, and the headquarters should be situated where it was free from any attempts at improper political controls.

CANADIAN LOAN PROPOSALS

AID FOR DEVASTATED COUNTRIES

(Rec. 7 p.m.) * OTTAWA, Dec. 3. A bill providing for a 650,000,000dollar increase on a previously authorised amount of 100,000,000 dollars for export credit loans to the Allies was read a first time.

The Minister of Finance (Mr J. L. Ilsley) said the object of the loans was to aid devastated countries, and to provide a long \erm basis for the expansion of Canadian trade. The amounts proposed included: France, 242,000.000 dollars; the Netherlands, 85,000,000 dollars; Norway, 30,000,000 dollars- the Netherlands East Indies, 65,000,000 dollars. The balance would be allotted to Belgium. China and Russia. Already 3,000,000 dollars had been advanced to Russia for the purchase of hydro-electric plants. Mr Ilsley said, that, in settling loans. Canada must accept many more imports than before the war. The Government was protecting Canadian exporters against risks, but there was an onus on manufacturers and others to meet world competition in assuring to Canada a proper place in the export market. The British delegation at present in the United States was expected soon at Ottawa, and credit plans for the United Kingdom would be negotiated.

Foreign Banks and French Law.— Relations between French banks and foreign banks will not be fundamentally altered by the French nationalisation measures. Branches and subsidiaries, of foreign banks come under the free section of the new banking regulations, but being subject to Trench J? w » they will have to obey the National Credit Council's instructions. They can carry ou/either deposit or trading banking, bir not both together. —Paris, Dec. 4.

Natives Killed.in Belgian Congo.— Seven Belgian Congo natives who were striking for higher wages were killed or wounded when fired on by troops at Matadi, a port near Leopoldville. Order was restored when reinforcements arrived from Leopoldville.— Leopoldville, Dec. 4.