PERSONNEL OF DOMINION DELEGATION

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21916, 10 January 1946, Page 5

PERSONNEL OF DOMINION DELEGATION

(Special Correspondent.) (H a. m .) LONDON, Jan. 9. The stage is set for the General Assembly of the United Nations and the huge auditorium of the Central Hall, Westminster, is ready to receive the delegates of the 51 nations, distinguished strangers, the press and the public. Cream, royal blue and touches of gilt are the predominating colours in the hall. The pale oak tables at which the delegates will sit are drawn up in a series of semi-circular rows in front of a raised platform on which will sit the president—probably Belgium’s Foreign Minister, M. Spaak. Immediately below the president is the rostrum from which the delegates will address the Assembly. In the first row, facing the rostrum and the president—Row No, 6—will be (from left to right), the delegates from Poland, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Soviet Russia, Syria, Turkey and the Ukraine. Immediately behind the last-named will be the United Kingdom, the United States and Uruguay. The New Zealand delegation, in Row No. 1, will be at the back of the hall at the extreme right-hand, sharing a table with the only delegate from Nicaragua—Dr. Sandeval. \

The New Zealand delegation, led by the Prime Minister, Mr. P. Fraser, will include Mr. R. M. Campbell, acting High Commissioner, Mr. A. D. Mackintosh, Secretary of External Affairs, Mr. J. V. Wilson, councillor in the Department of External Affairs, and Miss Jean McKenzie, one of the few women delegates. Alternates, or advisers, to the delegation are Mr. C. A. Knowles, private secretary to the High Commissioner, Sir Cecil Day, liaison officer for foreign affairs, Mr. Colin Aikrnan, of the External Affairs Department, and Mr. Robin Miller, public relations officer.

mitees which will begin sitting after the end of the plenary session. Mr, Fraser intends to take part in discussions of all important subjects and is particularly interested in the Political, the Trusteeship and the Economic and Social Committees. Since his arrival, in addtion to seeing the Kiwis at Cardiff and visiting Scotland, Mr. Fraser has also talked with Mr. C. R. Attlee, Mr. Ernest Bevin, Lord Addison and Mr. NoelBaker, and lunched with Mr. and Mrs. Churchill.

Two languages will be used at the conference —English and French. The speeches in Russian, Chinese and Spanish will be translated by official interpreters into English and French. Any speaker using a language outside these five must produce his own interpreter. The King received Mr. Fraser at Buckingham Palace and invested him with the insignia of Companion of lonour.

Mr. Bruce Turner, second secretary to the Washington legation, who was a member of the New Zealand delegation at the Preparatory Commission, has been lent to the UNO Secretariat and will be in charge of the section dealing with administrative and budgetary matters. All the New Zealand delegates will be interchangeable on the six com-