Brown To Talk To U.N.

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31188, 12 October 1966, Page 17

Brown To Talk To U.N.

(N.Z.P.A. Reuter—Copyright)

NEW YORK, October 11.

The British Foreign Secretary, Mr George Brown, is expected to lay his peace proposals on Vietnam before the General Assembly today in his maiden speech to the world body.

His broad review of world trouble spots will include Rhodesia, South-west Africa, Middle East problems and the crisis of confidence in the United Nations. Mr Brown is due to confer, for the second time, later today with the Soviet Foreign Minister, Mr Andrei Gromyko, who yesterday saw President Johnson in Washington. Mr Brown and Mr Gromyko are expected again to discuss Vietnam. The Soviet Minister coldshouldered the British peace plan when the pair conferred, for 90 minutes last Saturday. British sources said the United States endorsed the proposals through its chief Unit-

:ed Nations delegate, Mr Arthur J. Goldberg, whom Mr Brown saw last night. Rumours circulated in the United Nations last night that some African members may walk out when Mr Brown goes to the rostrum, in what was called an “anti-colonial backlash.” But responsible African sources said they doubted whether this would develop. It was recalled that the Africans marched out of the Assembly when the British Prime Minister, Mr Harold Wilson, addressed the World body last year. This was a demonstration of protest against Britain’s handling of the Rhodesian problem.