All Complaints Should Be Heard

Evening Star, Issue 25701, 26 January 1946, Page 7

All Complaints Should Be Heard

"I am always conscious that a complaint should be heard," said Mr Ernest Beyin. "Itis a mistake if a Government feels it has a complaint against another Power, great or small, and cannot come to the council to have the case heard. While the Government I represent has been included in subsequent charges of -endangering the peace, and in so far as my Government is principally responsible—in the case of Greece—l offer no objection to the fullest investigation and discussion. " I am so tired of these charges by the Soviet Government in private and in the Assembly that no one will be happier than 1 to see them brought into the open to give the British Government a chance to clear its conduct. '' If there is complaint from the Persian Government against the

Soviet Government, the Persian Government should be given a chance to come to this table and state its case, and we should be in a position to judge whether the . case is justified or not. " I would like it to go on the agenda to have the discussion*in the open, because I believe that peace depends on bringing out the facts before the world whether they are right or wrong." Mr Stettinius moved that the cases of Greece and Indonesia should also go on the agenda. The United States Government believed that any United Nations Government complaining should have a right to be heard before the Security Council. The proposal for the inclusion of the three items on the agenda was carried. The council will also consider an application from Albania for membership of the U.N.O.