NO DELAY

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 60, 8 September 1945, Page 7

NO DELAY

STETTINIUS STRESSES

Rec. 12.30 p.m. LONDON, Sept. 7. The Japanese war had made the early establishment of the United Nations' Organisation more important than ever, said Mr. Stettinius, in an address to the United Nations' Preparatory Commission. The public has a right to expect the establishment of a world organisation—that was the physical and mechanical establishment —as the United Nations' Charter came into force. A recent report he had received indicated that eighteen countries had already ratified the United Nations' Charter. There would be approximately thirty on the list in early October. Only twenty-nine were needed before the Charter came into force. If they could get the Assembly and Councils working soon, they would be able to give the necessary, expert attention to the pressing problems of security agreements, economic reconstruction, social rehabilitation, health, and transportation. "Above all," he said, "we should avoid the danger of letting the United Nations' Organisation be forgotten and eclipsed by other events or the creation of ad hoc bodies to deal with temporary questions on a temporary basis. I feel we should aim to convene the Preparatory Commission around the middle of October, then the organisational and business meeting around the middle of November to take the necessary steps to put the Organisation into actual operation. The meetings should both be held in London and should' be of two to three weeks' duration."

Mr. Stettinius suggested that they should recommend to the Constituent Assembly that next spring the first regular annual meeting of the Assembly should be called, from which the first meeting of the Constituent Assembly would not detract. Various councils, if elected this autumn, could adjourn at the end of the year and the Constituent Assembly meet again in January at whatever place was selected as its permanent headquarters. "The world is waiting for action. It expects the United Nations' Organisation to come into being. It will be terribly disappointed if there is any interruption in the continuity of the collaboration of the United Nations in peace."