U.N. SECURITY COUNCIL

Press, Volume XCII, Issue 27796, 22 October 1955, Page 9

U.N. SECURITY COUNCIL

Deadlock Over Membership

(Rec. 10 p.m.) NEW YORK, Oct. 20.

The United Nations General Assembly today postponed the election of its last Security Council member until next Thursday, with the Philippines and Jugoslavia each still in the race with formidable backing. The General Assembly was entangled in its worst election snarl in history, a United Press correspondent said.

The United States maintained its support of the Philippines for a twoyear term on the council, beginning in January, 1956. Britain and the Soviet bloc still favoured Communistruled Jugoslavia. A British spokesman said his Government saw no reason why Jugoslavia’s election yesterday to the Economic and Social Council should affect its right to run for the remaining Security Council seat. He cited as precedents the fact that New Zealand and Turkey both had served on a second council while sitting as a member of the Security Council. Mr Joe Maza, of Chile, the Assembly’s President, adjourned the meeting until next Thursday by general consent. He said he had been told there was a “private agreement in the chamber” that this should be done.

The Assembly, in its morning meeting, elected Brazil and Greece to the Economic and Social Council, and Guatemala and Syria to the Trusteeship Council for terms starting next year. The seats were held by Venezuela, Turkey, El Salvador, and Syria. The Assembly went through nine ballots yesterday and today before it could fill all vacancies oh the Economic and Social Council, but needed only three on the Trusteeship Council. The Soviet bid to seat Jugoslavia on the Security Council appeared to many observers to have been crippled by an American manoeuvre that placed the Jugoslavs on the Economic and Social Council.

Hitler Exhumed

By Russians

(Rec. 7 p.m.) FRIEDLAND CAMP, October 20.

The Russians exhumed Hitler’s bones at the beginning of May, 1945, and took the skull to Moscow for examination, Karl Schneider, aged 57, a major of Hitler’s bodyguard, said today. Schneider said that he himself had sent 180 canisters of petrol from Hitler’s own car park for the cremation of Hitler and Eva Braun. The petrol was ordered two days before Hitler committed suicide on April 30. Schneider was among the German prisoners who returned today from Russian captivity.