WORLD SECURITY

Evening Star, Issue 25173, 12 May 1944, Page 3

WORLD SECURITY

INTERNATIONAL AUTHORITY PLANNED PROFITING FROM PAST EXPERIENCE (Rec. noon.) LONDON, May 11. It now appears unlikely that Mr Curtin's plan for an Empire secretariat will be adopted. Observers take this view after to-day's House of Commons speech by Mr Mackenzie King, who hinted strongly that he was opposed to the plan. The Empire Prime Ministers to-day reopened the discussion on methods for establishing a post-war world security system, with the result that consideration of Mr Curtin's secretariat plan was again deferred. The sub-committee continued to examine technical problems arising from the Prime Ministers' deliberations on future military operations, particularly in the Far Eastern theatre. The plans for world security - which are now taking shape envisage an organisation embodying the best features of the League of Nations, but firmly based on the . conception that international authority must be backed by armed power exercised by thn leading nations. The Prime Ministers are paying close attention to the faults and shortcomings of the old league and also the practical experience gained between wars. The stage has now been reached where the British Government's plans, on which experts have been working since the Moscow conference, will shortly be submitted to the other great Powers. This meeting' between United Nations' leaders is likely to be preceded by a conference in London of high Allied officials who will give the peace blueprints a final expert scrutiny. The dominions will constantly be consulted and their approval sought for any modifications.