WORLD COURT

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 October 1946, Page 8

WORLD COURT

UNO COUNCIL GRANTS SPAIN ACCESS EUSSIAN_OPPOSITION NEW YORK, October 15. Poland sought to bar Spain from access to the International Court of Justice when the Security Council ol the United Nations considered the conditions on which the Court should be Open to States not parties io the Statute of the Court. After the Council had unanimously adopted an expert committee s recommendations on the subject, Dr. Lange, the Polish representative moved that the conditions should not apply to States whose regimes were installed with the help of the armed forces of the countries which fought against the United Nations as long as those regimes were in power. He explained that his motion was directed specifically at the Franco iegime in Spain which _ had been rejected from membersnip'of the united Nations and which Poland Relieved incapable of carrying out internauon--01 Mr V ’l-lerschell V.. J o . ha3o ? /United States) said the United States ed admitting Spain to the Um .< - tions while the franco regime r mainecl, but it c W sld e red , th ? . p was in a different category j, “ fundamental justice f nust c^ e _rntmns unaffected by political com • Even criminals were entitled to jus tice. The Court should have the widest possible jurisdiction ov tional legal disputes. .., nnnr f;ntf 'Mr. Gromyko Dr. Lange;- said it was mm to regard the issue ke ’ a ser _ Security Council would make a se ious mistake if it opened the dooi of the International Cpuit to G eral Franco and his chqu . The Polish motion was def ea £ seven votes and Mexico supporting P . ..