VETO ON DISCUSSION

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 135, 9 June 1945, Page 7

VETO ON DISCUSSION

ISSUE SETTLED

SOVIET GIVES WAY

(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copy. ißht.) SAN FRANCISCO, June 8. The five Great Powers have solved the deadlock over interpretation of the Yalta voting formula for considering international disputes. It has been agreed that no member of the security council in the proposed world security organisation can rule out discussion of any dispute. The formula which brought about the agreement has not yet been publicly announced. The atmosphere among,the delegates has been changed to one of enthusiasm and hope. Arrangements are now being made for the final meetings of committees and-the assembly. The "New York Times" correspondent says that the Russian amendments which have ended the veto deadlock did not meet the original American position in its entirety. For example, *• the Russians still propose, and the other four now approve, that whenever there is a dispute in the,security "' council over whether a depision should require the unanimity of the five permanent members the vote on this matter should carry the -right of veto. There was, however, really one point at issue among the five major Powers This was whether one nation had the right to veto a decision as to whether a dispute should be brought before the security council hnd discussed. "Our delegation, strongly supported by Britain, France, and China, did not ■waver in support of the principle of free discussion, and the Russian Government has now agreed to accept their view," the correspondent says; ORGANISATION NAMED. The new world organisation was officially christened today the "United Nations." Mr. Dmitry Manuilsky, head of the Ukrainian delegation, who is chairman of the technical committee which is in charge of naming the organisation, told the Press that the committee unanimously accepted his proposal that the organisation should be called the United Nations in homage to the late President Roosevelt; who first used the phrase to name the allied wartime coalition. The - New Zealand and Australian delegations are making plans for their : trip home, feeling that.they. have made important contributions- to liberalising the hew world charter, says the "New York ■ Times" correspondent:. They are not completely satisfied, but, with . the backing of New Zealand and other small countries, Australia has succeeded to some1 extent in playing the role of spokesman and leader for the small and middle Powers which France, now a- member of the Big Five, played at the former conferences. MR FRASER RECOGNISED. j . "Mr Fraser has co-operated closely on the lines of the Canberra Agreement," the correspondent says. "Outside the Big Five, no country has been more assiduous than Australia at the conference. Mr. Fraser has been recognised as one of the leading intellectual figures at the conference. I "He and his delegation came here to fight for a pledge against aggression and also to support territorial integrity, I and also desired more power for the assembly and less for the security .council. He has taken the position that the small nations realise the Big Three are the only.. Powers that can keep the peace, and also that it would be ridiculous to submit questions of .aggression to a vote of the small Powers. "Mr. Fraser has made it clear that the nations should build sluice-gates to allow the waters of progress to flow smoothly rather than, dams, to hold them back. One consolation, if the sluice-gates are not provided, he feels, is that no Great Power or group of Powers has ever been able to shackle mankind indefinitely—that the bonds will burst some day, one way or an-, other." j