DOMINIONS’ SUCCESS
COUNCILS' MEMBERSHIP
TERM FIXED AT YEAR LONDON, Feb. 13. The Dominions, with Mr P. Fraser (New Zealand) as the spearhead, had success in the United Nations Assembly to-night when the Assembly agreec that the term for members of the Security. Economic and Social Councils should be one year. The legal committee recommended that the term should end next September. Another proposal was that the term should end in September, 1947, giving members respectively terms of eight and 20 months. The struggle for a 12 months' term went through the legal committee and then the Assembly which referred it to the general committee. The committee recommended a 20 months' term. Mr Fraser’s amendment altering this, was carried by the Assembly by 27 votes to 19. ’ '
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21947, 15 February 1946, Page 3
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