NEW MEMBERS ELECTED

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25304, 2 October 1947, Page 7

NEW MEMBERS ELECTED

Seats On Security - Council votincTyet to BE COMPLETED

(R-Z- Cress Association—Copyright) (Rec. 10 p.m.) NEW YORK, Sept. 30. The United Nations General Assembly to-day elected Canada and Argentina to the Security Council to succeed Australia and Brazil, who will retire on December 31. They will serve for two years. Both were elected on the first ballot. The voting for a member to succeed Poland developed into a bitter struggle between the Ukraine and India,’and as Slither could muster the necessary ma-. rity after seven ballots, further votg was postponed until to-morrow. Canadays election had been regarded as certain. Argentina’s success was also expected. Argentina had beep “pre-selected” by the Latin-American bloc, and thus received the support of the United States, which had undertaken to vote for any country unanimously chosen by the South American Republics to succeed Brazil. TWO NEW MEMBERS OF U.N.

YEMEN AND PAKISTAN NEW YORK, September 30. The United Nations General Assembly has formally admitted Yemen and Pakistan to membership, bringing the total number of members to 57. The Security Council had approved the applications. The only dissentient in the Assembly was Afghanistan, which voted against Pakistan’s admittance.

TALKS ON ITALY’S COLONIES

RUSSIA ACCEPTS INVITATION

(Rec. 7 p.m ) LONDON, September 30. “It is learned authoritatively that th’ Soviet Government has accepted Britain’s invitation to attend a conference of special deputies of the Big Four Foreign Ministers on the Italian Empire’s future,” says the diplomatic correspondent of Reuters.

“The Soviet Ambassador (Mr Zarubin) brought acceptance by aeroplane after consultations in Moscow. ‘’Britain had proposed that the conference should open in London to-day. “The special deputies will have the task of sending a four-Power investigating commission to Cyrenaiea, Tripe litania, Eritrea, and Italian Somaliland.” OPERATIONS IN GREECE SUGGESTED USE OF U.S. OFFICERS (Rec. 7 p.m.) ATHENS, Sept. 30. United States officials in Athens have proposed to the United States War Department and State Department that between 30 and 40 United States officers shduld be attached to the Greek Army to intensify operations against the guerrillas. The announcement that British forces in Greece will soon move to winter quarters is taken to mean that no decision on their withdrawal has yet been made. PROTEST RY WORKERS IN VERDUN SUGAR ibR U.S. TROOPS IN GERMANY LONDON, September 30. Fighting broke out in Verdun when the police attacked 300 Communists Who were manning barricades to Pre-vent-French Army lorries taking 400 tons of sugar to the American troops in Germany, says the correspondent of the British United Press in Verdun. The Communists claimed that the sugar should be used to supplement French rations. The Verdup Central Labour Committee called a general strike, and labourers began massing reinforcements for,a “Second Battle of Verdun.” They used the First World War slogan: “Tnpy Shall Not Pass.” The French news agency says that after minor fighting between pickets and the police the sugar trucks left Verdun. The sugar was originally in barges which pickets for more than a week had prevented leaving the town. Soldiers transferred the sugar to army trucks. The Paris correspondent of Reuters says that four arm?ured cays and 12 jeeps carrying armed Republican security squads led the sugar convoy. Demonstrators raised a howl of anger as troops and police held them back from the departure point. The Socialist Party described the halting pf the barges as a Communiat manoeuvre against the Government.