VYSHINSKY LEAVES UNO COUNCIL IX 'TOWERING RAGE’

Greymouth Evening Star, 7 October 1948, Page 7

VYSHINSKY LEAVES UNO COUNCIL IX 'TOWERING RAGE’

(Recd. 9.45 a.m.) PARIS, October 6. Mr Vyshinsky (Soviet) was in a towering rage with the reporters as he left the Security Council meeting when it adjourned until the afternoon. This was in contrast to his mood when he arrived. He pushed correspondents aside, saying: “I am not going to explain anything. lam not going to say anything. Ido not wish to listen to anything. There is not a single correspondent who speaks in good faith.” Earlier Dr Jessup (America) accused the Soviet authorities of inconsistency in having adopted first 'one view and then another with regard to air traffic to Berlin. “The directive to the Military Governors was quite explicit on this question,” he said. “It called for the -removal of the restrictions and nothing more.” Mr Vyshinsky, however, came back for the afternoon debate, at which Sir Alexander Cadogan (Britain) was the first speaker.

Sir Alexander Cadogan endorsed Dr Jessup’s statements and denounced Russia’s action in Berlin, describing it in various parts of his speech as unilateral, illegal, forcible, and arbritrary. He deplored Russia’s decision not to take part in the Security Council discussion on Berlin. “Have They No Arguments?” “Have they no arguments, or is it that their minds are already made up to refuse acquiescence in anything that the Council may recommend?” he asked. “Is that the way by which the Soviet delegation seeks peace and understanding?” • Sir Alexander said Britain would carry out in good faith any resolution the Council adopted. He described as inconsistent Russia’s attempt to blame the blockade on technicalities or credit it. to defence against currency reform. “The action taken by the Soviet Government,” he said, “amounted to nothing less than the exercise of illegal pressure upon the British Government in furtherance of its political and economic objectives.” Good Faith Lacking He said the Russians entered the recent direct negotiations without good faith. “The documents, show conclusively that the Russian intention in entering the discussions was not to reach any settlement but to secure the same political advantages in Berlin which they had in the first place planned to secure bl the blockade. The British Government’s position is diear. They are in Berlin as of right. They are willing to accept any genuine agreement consistent with this right, but cannot abandon it.

“My delegation denies emphatically that there can be any bar to the Security Council trying to find

an amicable settlement where other means have failed.”

Mr Vyshinsky sat through the first part, of- Sir Alexander Cadogan’s speech with the earphones off, taking notes rapidly. Council Adjourns

Following Sir Alexander Cadogan’s speech, M. Alexandre Parodi, permanent French delegate to the United Nations, recapitulated the points of the dispute between the Western Powers and the Soviet.

The Security Council then adjourned on the understanding that after what the chairman called an “intermediary waiting period” a meeting would be called by the president. The British United Press says a meeting will probably be called again next week.