BRITISH OFFER TO UNO

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21923, 18 January 1946, Page 3

BRITISH OFFER TO UNO

TRANSFER OF MANDATE AREAS

COLLECTIVE TRUSTEESHIP PLAN

MR BEVIN ADDRESSES ASSEMBLY (11 a.m.) LONDON, Jan. 17. A plea for reasoning and balanced development of all organs comprised within the United Nation’s Organisation was made by the British Foreign Secretary, Mr. Ernest Bevin, in a speech to the General Assembly. He told the Assembly that Britain intended to enter into negotiations for placing Tanganyika, Cameroons and Togoland under the trusteeship system. Regarding Palestine, Mr. Bevin said the Government thought it necessary to await the report of the British-American Commission of inquiry before putting forward any problems relating to the future of that country. He added that, in Trans-Jordan, it was the Government’s intention to take steps for establishing the territory as a sovereign independent State.

“The aggressor can no longer look forward to a halo of glory and statues created to his memory,’’ he said. “Instead, he will be remembered by the scaffold and the hangman’s rope. “It is necessary not only to outlaw war itself when it is begun, but to build an organisation that will act promptly as soon as symptoms are manifest.

do is prepare the soil ' n which the great and little Powers can, as it were, grow together in a common endeavour for mutual benefit.

‘ One of the most important functions of the organisation is security. There will devolve on the Security Council a very grave responsibility to devise plans to prevent aggressor being able to create war again. “Security must be devised in such a way that some Powers which have been victorious in this war can grow together with confidence so that this organisation itself may become the reai answer to all the devilish devices of war.”

“But I would also utter a warning that you cannot change the world in a moment. What this Assembly can