WORLD SECURITY LEAGUE

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 283, 26 August 1944, Page 6

WORLD SECURITY LEAGUE

Joint Defence Staff REPORTED BRITISH PROPOSAL tßy Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Received August 25,'10.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, August 24. Britain has proposed at the Dumbarton Oaks conference the creation of a United Nations military staff committee, which would be established under the council of the proposed world security league to help prevent and repel aggression, says the Washington correspondent of the “New York Times.” , . . ~ „ The British memorandum rejects tue international police force idea and. proposes instead an extension of the BritishAmerican combined chiefs' of staff committee, expanded, into a much broader organization to work with the council in securing peace. The memorandum suggests that this military staff would deal primarily with keeping the Axis Powers under control, and it also indicated that the staff committee could plan the size and type of forces required, intimating what quotas each nation would be expected to put r the disposal of the league, and what forces would be needed to deal with any threatened aggression. It points out that as an advisory international general headquarters would be a departure from precedent, the high officers of the nations would require experience in working together. , ~ .... The United Nations should jointly occupy certain Axis areas, and everything should be done after the war.to encourage joint cruises by the . Allied navies and joint flights by Allied air forces, the memorandum says. Addition of France. The New York “Herald-Tribune’s" Washington correspondent says he learns from Congressional sources that a United States plan presented to the conference envisages the addition of France to the permanent group forming the core of the international council, thus creating a bloc of five great Powers instead of four. Dr. Kung, the Chinese Minister of Finance, told the United States Senate that China was prepared to back up a properly-constituted world organization with all China has in enforcing peace. Dr. Kung added that at the time of Pearl Harbour, followed by the fall of Hong Kong, Malaya, Burma and the Philippines, Japan repeatedly made tempting offers to China, urging her to give up what then appeared to be a hopeless struggle, but China did not falter, and she bogged down a million Japanese soldiers who could have been used against India.