UNITED NATIONS MEMBERSHIP

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25300, 27 September 1947, Page 9

UNITED NATIONS MEMBERSHIP

Italy And Eastern European States POWERS DISAGREE ON COUNCIL (NJZ. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 11 pjn.) NEW YORK, Sept. 25. Another argument over the admission of new members to the United Nations began to-day in the Security Council when Poland, supported by the Soviet, moved that Italy. Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria, and Finland be admitted en bloc. Britain and the United States supported Italy’s application, but opposed all the others. They demanded that a separate vote be taken on each. Mr Gromyko (Russia) said that Britain and the United States were violating the Potsdam agreement, which required that all former enemy States should be treated without discrimination. He was willing to support Italy’s application, which he vetoed last month because the peace treaty with Italy was not then effective, but only on condition that the other applicants were admitted simultaneously. Mr Herschel Johnson (United States) said the Council was not bound to grant applications by countries whose behaviour did not entitle them to membership. Mr Gromyko, as president of the Council for this month, finally agreed in deference to the majority’s wishes to put the vote on each application separately. After discussion on Hungary’s application, which Mr Johnson opposed because of the new regime’s “persistent violation of human rights,” the debate was adjourned until Monday without a vote being taken.