MR. FRASER'S BELIEF

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 136, 11 June 1945, Page 4

MR. FRASER'S BELIEF

GREAT DISAPPOINTMENT IN NEW ZEALAND

(Official News Service.)

SAN FRANCISCO, June 10

The New Zealand delegation came here to fight for a pledge against aggression and in support of the territorial integrity, for more power for the general assembly and less power for the • security council, writes Russel Porter in the "New York Times." Mr. Porter also remarks that Australians and New Zealanders' have shown a friendly attitude here towards the United Kingdom and the United States, but have followed an independent line, not under domination of either. Although they have voted with the British on many occasions, they, like Canada, make it very clear that there is no British Empire bloc that Number 10 Downing Street could order to vote this way or that. Discussing Mr. Fraser's attitude to the veto, Mr. Porter says it is believed he would accept it on a provisional basis—that is, if the door was not closed against its revision by another conference in five or seven years at which the veto powers would not be used against amendments. SOVIET COULD WITHDRAW. "Here, of course, he is running counter to the Russian viewpoint, but he has pointed out that Russia or any other big Power would always have the practical right of veto, regardless of any phrasing in the charter since any nation could withdraw from the organisation if it felt its interests so required," says Mr. Porter. "If such a revisionary conference were pledged, he has made it clear, he could go back to New Zealand and say that while there are many defects and disappointments in the charter that was the price that had to be .paid to keep the peace of the world and that the charter was subject to change m future "Without such provision for change, he has indicated a belief that there will be great public disappointment. He has made it clear that no great Powers or groups of Powers ever have been able to shackle mankind indefinitely—that the bonds will be- burst some day, one way or another.