RACE LAWS IN AFRICA

Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26887, 13 November 1952, Page 9

RACE LAWS IN AFRICA

Apartheid Debate Before U.N.

(N.Z. Press Association-Copyright)

(Rec. 11p.m.) NEW YORK, November 12. , rhe^ I k n i ted Natio " s Special Committee will today begin a debate on one of the most explosive issues in the General Assembly-South Africa’s policy of racial segregation. 7

The special committee of 60 nations is scheduled to take ” P hVfr^’T ° f the 13 ’ nation Arab-Asian group that the ‘ outh African Government s policy of apartheid is a P threat to peace and a contravention of the Charter.

h i e r Same co . mm >itee, by a vote of 41 in favour and onh South Africa against, appointed a Good Offices Commission to try to assist South Africa, India, and Pakistan to in S S^uth n Tfr t ica tl ° nS °” qUestion of the treatment of Indians

In the plenary session of the General Assembly three Moslem nations are today scheduled to give their views pn the main problems of Korea and the future of the coloniallydependent peoples. The countries to take part in the debate are Egypt. Pakistan. Syria, Ethiopia, and the Dominican Republic. Meanwhile behind-the-scenes negotiations are continuing in the attempt to find a compromise solution on the deadlock in the Korean armistice talks.

The Israel delegation is known to be preparing a list of approximately eight suggestions which might be used as a basis for further negotiations.