HEATED DEBATE
BRITAIN AND U.S. REJECT N.Z. PLAN LONDON, May 20. The British and American members of the committee on the structure and procedure of the security council refused, after a heated debate, to participate in the effort to amend the voting formula decided at Yalta. Sir Alexander Cadogan, Permanent Under-Secretary of the British Foreign Office, and Senator Tom Connally, chairman of the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, had their way in the debate which ended last night, with the result that the sub-committee originally proposed by Colombia to clarify, redraft, or amend the section dealing with the security council's voting powers was, by 23 votes to 3, confined merelyi to claritying the language. Sir Alexander, answering the New Zealand objection to the veto power, said that for 20 years New Zealand had accepted the veto power possessed by any members of the League of Nations without attempting to change it. Mr Fraser retorted that New Zealand had no more responsibility for the League veto than Russia had tor Mr Fraser is reported to have unsuccessfully demanded a clear statement from the Big Four on the effect of the veto formula. He said the veto put justice in a strait-jacket, and even Yalta and Dumbarton Oaks could not stop the evolution of justice.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 118, 21 May 1945, Page 4
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215HEATED DEBATE Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 118, 21 May 1945, Page 4
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