ADMISSIONS TO U.N.

Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26857, 9 October 1952, Page 9

ADMISSIONS TO U.N.

American Study Of New Plan (Rec. 9 p.m.) WASHINGTON Oct. 7. The United States State Department is studying a proposal to break the long deadlock with the Soviet Union by offering to lower the bars on the admission of new members to the United Nations. This developed today from a background conference in which ..department officials and representatives of several score of civic and other organisations exchanged views on United Nations problems. Officials said that a general restudy was being made, in the hope of ending the East-West deadlock which had blocked the admission of any new members for the last two years. The restudy, it was made clear, included the possibility of amending the Charter to admit all applicants provided they were truly independent states and were not warring on the United Nations, as were North Korea and Communist China. The Charter says that new members must be peace-loving and must pledge that thev will carry out the principles of the Charter. The idea of making United Nations membership virtually universal carries with it an amendment of article IV of the Charter, admitting applicants who obtain a two-thirds vote provided they are not complete satellites and are not actively fighting the United Nations.