UNITED NATIONS FUTURE DISCUSSED

Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26124, 29 May 1950, Page 7

UNITED NATIONS FUTURE DISCUSSED

Deadlock Over Position Of Communist China

COMMENT ON MISSION OF MR TRYGVE LIE

(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 9 p.m.) NEW YORK, May 28. “Mr Trygve Lie was gambling for high stakes in his efforts to end the United Nations deadlock over China,” said the United Nations correspondent of the “New YBrk Times” today. Jallure would inevitably have the most serious effects on the United Nations, the correspondent said. Mr Lie had bound up the prestige of the entire organisation with the success or failure of his mission. If, in spite of Mr Lie’s efforts, no settlement of any kind was reached between now and September it appeared inevitable that the Soviet Union and the Soviet satellites would complete their withdrawal from the United Nations by walking out of the General Assembly at the session to be held that month. “Presumably, the Soviet Union would then organise its own Communist United Nations, thus symbolising the failure of the ‘One World’ concept that inspired the United Nations Charter. “The United Nations in that case would continue to function but as an anti-Soviet alliance. “In the very nature of things, the danger of war would increase and in such a dire event the personal fortunes of one man would not greatly matter,” the correspondent said. It was taken for granted that, whatever the outcome, MiLie would not resign. However, it was worth noting that the re-election of Mr Lie as Secretary-General—assuming he would accept it—itself appeared to be conditional upon the success of his mission.