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Greymouth Evening Star, 2 August 1946, Page 7

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COMPLETION OF PEACEMAKING WORK

WHAT FAILURE WOULD MEAN (Rec. 1 p.m.) PARIS, August 1. The Secretary-General of UNO, Mr Trygve Lie, said the United Nations Assembly and the Paris conference simply could not meet simultaneous ly. “The peacemakers have 54 days in which to complete their work before opening the General Assembly. I am quite sure the end will be good. These men are under pressure from all the peoples of the world to find an agreement. The leading statesmen of the Allied Nations must be present in New York on September 23 if the United Nations is to be a first-class organisation.” He added that it was impossible further to postpone the meeting of the assembly. Accommodation had been reserved for 7000 delegates and their staffs. The provisional agenda had already been distributed to the Allied Governments and many Arnerican conventions had been cancelled fin order to make way for the opening of the asembly. Mr Lie said that the failure of the United Nations would mean the triumph of destruction. The United Nations was not designed to perform the functions of the peace conference nor to act as referee between the Great Powers, but it had, unfortunately, so far not fulfilled the broad hopes placed in it. Mr Lie complained that a survey showed that the overseas press had given an inadequate coverage of the United Nations’ activities. Therefore steps were being taken to establish a number of redistribution information. centres.