CENSURED BY U.N.

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22201, 11 December 1946, Page 6

CENSURED BY U.N.

S. AFRICAN_ MINISTRY ANTI-INDIAN LAWS ANNEXATION OPPOSED NEW YORK, Dec. 9. The United Nations General Assembly sitting in plenary session censured the South African Government for discrimination against Indian citizens and adopted by 32 votes to 15 a compromise resolution calling on India and South Africa to‘settle their differences and report to the Assembly next year. The resolution recognised India s contention regarding the treatment of Indians in South Africa, adding that because of that treatment friendly relations between two member States had been impaired and were likely to be 0 further impaired unless a satisfactory settlement is reached. This was adopted after the Assembly rejected a South African amendment demanding that the Indian-South African issue be sent to the International Court of Justice for advisory opinion. General J. C. Smuts, who had moved this amendment, left the Assembly to return to South Africa by air before the Assembly’s final decision was reached. Earlier, the trusteeship committee adopted an Indian resolution prohibiting South Africa from annexing SouthWest Africa and calling for the establishment of . a united trusteeship over the area. This reversed the sub-com-mittee’s vote which had accepted a Danish-American resolution banning the annexation of South-West Africa now, but leaving the question open for later consideration.