POWER OF EXPULSION
" BIG FOUR " MOTION DEFEATED SAN FRANCISCO, .May "27. The " Big Four " were decisively beaten in committee on a 'motion that the world organisation should bo empowered to expel members. Russia. Britain, and America urged strongly that an expulsion provision should be included in the world charter. The small nations claimed that suspension was a grave enough penaltv, and the omission of expulsion would preserve the concent of universality. The voting was 19 to 10 in favour of expulsion power, but as there was not a two-thirds majority the motion was lost. The committee then aporoved by 23 to one the sub-committee's recommendation that the charter's suspension provisions be strengthened and the expulsion provisions dropped. Britain dissented, and Russia and America abstained from voting.
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Evening Star, Issue 25495, 28 May 1945, Page 7
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126POWER OF EXPULSION Evening Star, Issue 25495, 28 May 1945, Page 7
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