AMERICAN QUOTA

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 138, 8 December 1945, Page 11

AMERICAN QUOTA

! UNITED NATIONS FORCE WASHINGTON. December 5. The Senate has passed and sent to the House of Representatives legislation approving States participation ih the United Nations* Organisation. The Senate rejected the proposal requiring the President to ask Congress for authority each time American troops were furnished to the Security Council. The approved legislation would require the President to obtain Congressional approval only regdrding tho numbers and types of armed forces to be supplied. The Secretary of State, Mr. James Byrnes, commenting on President Truman's statement that there should .be no further Big Three Conferences and that I.he United Nations Organisation Hhould take over as Foon as possible, said the President was referring to the individual? heading the Big Three, but did not intend to oppose meetings by Big Three Foreign Ministers or of the Council of Foreign Ministers. Mr. Byrnes added that the United States desired that peace treaties should be negotiated by the Peace Conference as was advocated at the London meeting of Foreign Ministers. A London message says that the presidency of tho United Nations Security Council will be held in turn for one calendar month by members of the council in the English alphabetical order of the names, if a decision today by the committee of the preparatory commission i.s approved by the Geueral Assembly. The Australian, delegation to the preparatory commission has presented a proposal for the establishment of an international centre of exchange of information on the technical, economic, and social aspects of housing and town and country planning. The proposal points out that such an< organisation could offer technical information and advice on social principles to all those countries which have before them vast programmes of house and town building aimed at overcoming the shortages and physical damage caused hv thp war.