DELEGATION TOU.N.

Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26362, 5 March 1951, Page 7

DELEGATION TOU.N.

Move By World Peace Council'

(N.Z. -Press Association-Copyright) (Rec. 8 p.m.) LONDON, March 3. The Moscow Radio, quoting “Pravda,” said that the Communist-led World Peace Council in Berlin* last week planned to send a delegation to Lake Success, demanding that the United Nations adopt the council’s programme for world peace. “Pravda” to-day, giving the first details of the council’s Berlin resolution, revealed a comprehensive plan to spread the council’s peace campaign in all countries of the world. “Pravda,” in a leading article, said that the United Nations is faced with the choice of either fulfilling the World Peace Council’s demands or sharing the - inglorious fate of the League of Nations and doom itself to decay.

“In addressing its demands to the United Nations,” says “Pravda,” "the Reace Council acts as the most representative organ of all peoples—both those x represented in the United Nations and those not represented. “The council’s demands are the demands of hundreds of millions of people of goodwill of the whole world.”

A Tass despatch from Berlin published in Moscow, said that the delegation would demand that the United Nations should return to the role assigned it—to serve as an area of agreement between governments, and not as an instrument of any dominant group. The resolution recommended all national committees to make popular in as wide a circle as possible the decision to send the delegation. Rearming Germany

The council approved the holding of a convocation in Paris or Brussels as early as possible against the remilitarisation of Germany and a conference of the peoples of the . European Atlantic Pact countries, including Germany, to discuss remilitarisation and the peaceful settlement of the German problem. The council also sought an international economic conference in the Soviet Union in the summer of 1951 to restore economic relations and raise living standards. The council approved the organisation of a conference of the countries of Asia and the Pacific to discuss the struggle against the rearmament of Japan and for holding popular appeals In Asian and Pacific countries on the remilitarisation of Japan and the conclusion of the peace treaty this year. It considered it was necessary to develop contact with movements favouring neutrality, existing in different countries, so that they should serve the preservation of peace and to find ways of co-operation with pacifist movements. The resolution instructed the council’s bureau to support the organisation of a regional conference of African, Scandinavian, North and South American countries, and to seek the churches’ support for its resolutions. The council also approved a medical conference in Italy this year to study the “pernicious influence of war preparations on the health of masses and the formation of a council of International Cultural Relations.” “Pravda” said that the United Nations which was created to strengthen peace and international security “has deceived the peoples’ hopes because ruling circles in the United States, Britain, and others of their bloc in the very first days of its existence entered the path of violating the charter's basic principles, the path of rejecting I peaceful international co-operatioh, and the path of refusal to act according to the spirit of unanimity and agreement.” Referring to the United Nations resolution branding China the aggressor in Korea "Pravda” said: “As a result of the criminal intrigue of Anglo-American imperialism, the United Nations created as a bastion of peace is being fumed into a means of unleashing a new world war. “It is ceasing to be a peaceful organisation. It is not now so much this as an organisation serving the American aggressors’ nepds.” “Possible Soviet 'threat”

Officials in London considered that the “Pravda" article constitutes a possible threat by the Soviet Union to quit the United Nations’. British experts said it carried further than ever before the recent tendency of the promoters of the World Peace Council to develop this organisation in competition with the United Nations. They drew attention to various recent announcements by Soviet writers and publicists which seemed to prepare the ground for the Soviet departure from the United Nations unless it adopted the programme of the World Peace Movement.