EFFECT OF SPEECH

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29325, 3 October 1960, Page 13

EFFECT OF SPEECH

Chances Of Talks With Eisenhower Reduced (NJZ. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 10 p.m.) NEW YORK, October 1. Mr Khrushchev brought a renewed atmosphere of crisis into the General Assembly today with his bitter tirade on the issue of Chinese representation. Reuter reported that anxious delegates gathered in the lounges afterwards said that the Soviet Prime Minister’s outburst appeared to place in doubt hopes of renewed East-West negotiations on world problems at least for some time to come.

Reuter said that few delegates would say that Mr Khrushchev had slammed the door completely on efforts which have been made here throughout the session to bring the principal protagonists together, but his bitter attacks on the United States, its allies, and on the Secretary-General (Mr Hammarskjold) were considered to have reduced sharply any early prospect of reconciliation. As an immediate question, the fate of a resolution sponsored by five key non-committed nations— Ghana, India, .Indonesia, the United Arab Republic and Jugoslavia—aimed at bringing Mr Khrushchev and President Eisenhower into “new contacts” appeared now to be in the balance.

When it was tabled yesterday in the Assembly, many diplomats had predicted its adoption by an overwhelming majority, and President Nasser of the U.A.R. had been expected to move suspension of the foreign policy debate next Monday so that it might be considered without further delay.

One Western informant told Reuter that Mr Khrushchev had made it possible for delegations which already were doubtful about the wisdom or value of an appeal to the Soviet and United States leaders to resume talks at this time to resist “this particular form of pressure” from the neutral group. Another source said bluntly that he considered Mr Khrushchev had virtually closed the door “which Mr Harold Macmillan opened on ThurAay.” The British Prime Miniver conferred for two hours with Mr Khrushchev after addressing the Assembly. They plan a further meeting next week. In his address to .the United

Nations General Assembly yesterday afternoon, President Soekarno of Indonesia submitted a five-power resolution calling on President Eisenhower and Mr Khrushchev to renew their contacts so that their declared willingness to find solutions of the outstanding problems by negotiation might be progressively implemented.

President Soekarno said that he was submitting the draft resolution to the General Assembly on behalf of the delegations of Ghana, India, the United Arab Republic. Jugoslavia and Indonesia. The five leaders held their first “uncommitted nations summit” at President Tito’s delegation headquarters on Friday night. Copies of the resolution have been sent to President Eisenhower and Mr Khrushchev.

Dr. Soekarno told the Assembly immediately after tabling the resolution: “I submit that draft resolution on behalf of those five delegations, and on behalf of the millions of people in those nations. “To accept this resolution is a possible and immediate step. Let this General Assembly accept thss resolution as soon as possible. “Let us take this practical step towards an easing of the dangerous tensions in our world. Let us carry this resolution unanimously, so that the full force of the world’s concern may be felt.” President Soekarno suggested that the headquarters of the United Nations be removed from the atmosphere of the “cold war” —perhaps to Asia, Africa or Geneva. President Soekarno called for an immediate revision of the United Nations charter. He said

it was essential that distribution of seats in the Security Council and other United Nations agencies should also be revised.

He said: “In order to modernise and make efficient our organisation, perhaps even the Secretariat, under the leadership of its Secretary-General, may need to be revised.”

President Soekarno said that he was determined to make the United Nations strong and universal and- able to fulfil its proper function.- “That is why we consistently support the representation of China in our number,” he said.

He asked >how there could be a realistic agreement on disarmament if China, one of the most powerful nations in the world, was excluded from the deliberations?

For 15 years the West had known peace, or at least the absence of war, President Soekarno said. Both great blocs, in fact, had successfully practised coexistence for all those years, thus contradicting those who denied the possibility of co-existence. “We of Asia have not known peace,” he said. “After peace came to Europe, we endured atomic bombs. We endured our own national revolution in Indonesia. We endured the torment of Vietnam. We suffered the torture of Korea. We still suffer th.e agony of Algeria, Is it now the turn of our African brothers? Are they to be tortured while our wounds are still unhealed?”