STRONGLY ENDORSED

Evening Star, Issue 25522, 28 June 1945, Page 5

STRONGLY ENDORSED

CONFERENCE LEADERS SPEAK . PATHWAY TO PEACE LAID (Official News Service.) (R«c. 8.30 a.m.) ' SAN FRANCISCO, June 26. President Truman was preceded by 10 delegation chairmen selected as representing a kind of cross-section of the United Nations. Here are some of tie highlights from some of their addresses. Mr E. R. Stettinius, the United States, who presided: "Every nation represented here has had a part in the making of the Charter. Sentence by sentence, article by article, it has. been lammered out around the conference iables. We have spoken freely with 3ach other. Often we have disagreed. When we disagreed we tried again, and then again, until we ended, by reconciling the differences among us. This is the way of friendship and peace. This is the only way the nations of free men can make a charter for peace, and the only way they can live at peace with one another." Dr Wellington Koo, China: " We are glad to see in the completed instrument to-day many new features. Provisions have been added which emphasise that the adjustment or settlement of international disputes should be in conformity with the principles of justice and international law, which aim to promote and encourage respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms for all. without distinction as to race, language, religion, or sex, which expressly recognise the inherent right of the individual and collective self-defence in the event of j armed attack, which stress the imof co-operation in the solution of international economic, social, cultural, and other humanitarian problems, which empower the Economic So-

cial Council to set up commissions in these diverse fields of activity in order to achieve positive results, and which provide a comprehensive and liberal system of international trusteeship stipulating independence and self-go-vernment among its fundamental objectives." M. A. A. Gromyko, Soviet Union: "The decision of the conference to give permanent seats in the Security Council to the five great Powers is a recognition of the obvious fact that tho council can possess sufficient means and forces necessary for the maintenance of peace only if it (permanently includes those countries which have sufficient resources in men and material necessary for successful and effective fulfilment of its duties. It is_ necessary to point out specially the significance of those provisions' of. the Charter which refer to the peaceful settlement of disputes and conflicts. Members of the organisation obligate themselves to achieve peaceful settlements. Lot us hope that this aim will be fully realised."

' Lord Halifax, the United Kingdom: " The Charter is a notable advance, both on all that has gone before, and on the plan of the sponsor Powers from which it grew. 1 do not doubt that in this l'esult the future will acknowledge the ipart of. all nations, and not tho least, I hope, that of the different members of the British Commonwealth. We cannot indeed claim that our work is perfect, or that we have created an uubreakable guarantee of peace. For ours is not an enchanted palace to spring into sight at once. But we have, I am convinced, forged an instrument by which, if men are serious in wanting peace, and are ready to make sacrifices for it, they may find the menas to win it." AMERICAN REPRESENTATIVE MR STETTINIUS'S NEW POST (Rec. noon.) WASHINGTON, June 27. President Truman has announced acceptance of the resignation of Mr Edward R. Stettinius from the post of Secretary of State, to which he was appointed in December last on the resignation of Mr Cordell Hull. Mr Stettinius is to become the American representative on the Security Council of tho new World Organisation, and chairman of the United States delegation' to the General Assembly. President Truman said that Mr Stettinius's new post was the highest in the gift of the United States Government. He added that Mr Stettinius

had tendered his resignation on the day after the death of President Roosevelt, but he had asked him to remain in office to carry out the vital job of chairman of the United States delegation to the San Francisco Conference. Mr Stettinius and the British Ambassador, Viscount Halifax, have returned to Washington from San Francisco, bringing with them the new World Charter. Mr Stettinius said he would continue to give everything in him to fulfill the promise of-lasting peace contained in the Charter. BEST POSSIBLE SOLUTION RUSSIAN PRESS COMMENT (Rec. 8 a.m.) LONDON, June 27. The United Nations' charter is described by the Russian newspaper 1 lszestia ' as ,'' not the ideal solution of the problem of organising world security, but the best possible solution." ' lzvestia ' as " not the ideal solution tiou does not set itself the task of creating eternal peace and immediately stamping out causes of conflicts and wars. Jts main object is more realistic —to prevent possible aggression by joint action by peace-loving nations. The British, American, and Russaiu coalition, forged in the common struggle, will he preserved and strengthened by the peace which has become the new organisation's soul. The preservation of peace will be one of thi! Soviet's main tasks."