PLAN FOR 'FRISCO

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 96, 24 April 1945, Page 7

PLAN FOR 'FRISCO

PACIFIC COMMUNITY NEW CO-OPERATIVE BODY Rec. 12.30 p.m. '..,„„ SAN FRANCISCO, April 23. The Filipino delegate, BrigadierGeneral Carlos Komulo, announced that he intended to move at" the United Nations Conference International Organisation (UNCIO) the creation of "a, Community of the Pacific." This would be similar to the Pan-American Union, embracing all countries bordering the Pacific in mutual defence, economic and political co-operation as part of the United Nations security system. The members should include Australia New Zealand, the United States, China, India, Malaya, Indonesia, Oceania, the Philippines, Mexico, and the South American countries bordering the Pacific. Brigadier-General Romulo said the community would constitute a ring oi friendship which would saueeze out

the Japanese who organised a coprosperity sphere based on race. Thai idea cannot be killed with bombs and bazookas, and must be superseded by a better idea. The United States delegates, are studying a plan for submission to UNCIO providing that the United States shall retain control of certain strategic Pacific bases after the war. The plan covers two kinds of trusteeships. The first would be subject to investigation and report by the trustee committees of the proposed world organisation. The second would be assigned exclusively to the trustee Power. , ■ , , The advocates of the plan say that this would satisfy American military demands for bases and also benefit Great Britain, Russia, and any other, Power requiring military bases.