U.N. ACTION URGED

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22374, 5 July 1947, Page 5

U.N. ACTION URGED

POLICING OF BALKANS CURBING DISORDERS BRITAIN’S ATTITUDE (10 a.m.) NEW YORK, July 3. “If we cannot apply proposals such as those submitted by the Balkans inquiry commission and now embodied in the United States resolution we had better tear up the charter and pack up,” said Sir Alexander Cadogan, Britain, addressing the Security Council yesterday on the Balkan issue. The commission had proposed a border commission in the Balkan frontier zone, arrangements for the internationalisation ■ of refugee camps and the exchange of minority groups between Balkan countries. Sir Alexander Cadogan endorsed the inquiry commission’s majority charge that Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Albania were primarily responsible for the Balkan disorders and said: “It is just such a case as the United Nations was designed to meet. We have practical proposals which can, perhaps, be perfected. We must try them.” Sir Alexander Cadogan rejected the Soviet contention that the proposed border patrol commission would infringe the sovereign rights of the Balkan countries, saying: “In these days sovereign rights do not retain their pristine inviolability.” He said that any international convention detracted to some degree from national sovereignly, and the objection should have been thought of when the United Nations’ Charter was drafted at San Francisco. Senor Carlos Munz, Brazil, said the commission’s recommendations, as written into the United States resolution, were part of the process of conciliation and should be received as such by States to which they were directed. The council adjourned until Tuesday.