HISTORIC U.N. SESSION

Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27690, 21 June 1955, Page 13

HISTORIC U.N. SESSION

Emphasis May Be On Disarmament (N.Z. Press Association— 4 Copyright) (Rec. 8.30 p.m.) SAN FRANCISCO, June 19. President Eisenhower, in his speech tomorrow to the United Nations charter-signing commemoration in San Francisco, is expected to emphasise the importance of world disarmament as a means of relieving EastWest tensions, it was reported today. In talks with Mr Eisenhower and the Big Three Foreign Ministers last week, the West German Chancellor, Dr. Adenauer, emphasised the importance of thj» West taking the initiative in a drive for controlled dis<|-mamcnt as the essential prerequisite for both a European security settlement and the reunification of Germany. That Mr Eisenhower had sent to San Francisco both his new Minister for Disarmament, Mr Harold Stassen, and his special assistant on world public opinion, Mr Nelson Rockefeller, was being interpreted today as an indication that the President would make a major move in this direction in his speech. The speech was also expected to set the keynote for United States policy at the Soviet and Western Foreign Ministers’ meeting tomorrow, which will complete plans for the long-. awaited Big Four “summit” conferences of heads of governments in Geneva next month.

Tonight the three Western Foreign Ministers will have their first opportunity of meeting the Soviet Foreign Minister, Mr Molotov, at a dinner being given for all the United Nations delegates by the Colombian Ambassador to the United States, Dr. Eduardo Zuleta Angel. Dr*. Angel played an important role in East-West diplomacy at last year s Geneva Conference on the Far East. The Foreign Ministers were not expected to have any formal talks at the dinner, but it was thought that Mr Molotov might give some indication of how he would like the further conferences organised. The arrival today of Mr Dulles, the British Foreign Secretary, Mr Macmillan, and the French .Foreign Minister, Mr Pinay, completed the roster of the 38 Foreign Ministers attending the United Nations meeting. Mr Molotov arrived yesterday. All of the delegates to the meeting are to deliver speeches reviewing the accomplishments of the United Natrons. Mr Molotov paid a 20-minute visit to the United Nations Secretary-Gen-eral, Mr Dag Hammarskjold, at noon today. Neither would comment on the meeting. The Soviet Minister’s party included several bodyguards. As they arrived, pickets of a local Baltic Society paraded with signs assailing the Soviet Union’s .“enslavement” of Latvia. Lithuania and Estonia. The delegates’ addresses to the United Nations session will end next Friday afternoon. On Friday night, former President Truman, who closed the initial session here on June 26, 1945. will speak at a meeting in the Opera House, where he spoke in 1045 The final ceremony of this meeting will take place next Sunday afternoon, when former presidents of the United Nations Assembly will speak. Position of China Two veteran delegates today opposed seating Communist sJhina in the United Nations. General Carlos Romulo (the Philippines) and Mr Charles Malik (Lebanon) said on a radio programme that they did not believe the Peking regime met the requirements of the United Nations Charter. General Romulo said that the Communist Chinese Government was not “peace-loving” as required by the charter. He voiced continued support to Nationalist China.

The two delegate* recommended that the veto power against members be eliminated. They said that the United Nations should have universality so far as independent countries met the charter requirements for peace-loving nations.

There are about 20 countries which have applied to the United Nations, but have been vetoed by the Soviet Union, or have failed to get qpough votes to be admitted.