CHOICE FOR WORLD

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22439, 20 September 1947, Page 5

CHOICE FOR WORLD

U.N. OR THE VETO PHILIPPINES’ ATTACK CHINESE ATTITUDE (N.Z.P.A. —Iteuter—Copyright.) (10 a.m.) NEW YORK. Sept. 19. The Philippines delegate, Senor Carlos Romulo, called upon the Assembly to formulate the measures to be taken against the States that flaunted •he wishes of the United Nations. He referred specifically to South Africa's refusal to fulfil the last Assembly's recommendation that it halt discrimination against Indian nationals. Senor Romulo also attacked the veto. “The entire structure of the United Nations itself must sometime crumble and collapse under the continued sledgehammer blows of the veto." he added. "The world must choose between the United Nations and the veto in its present form, because it cannot have both.” Division of World Into Bices The Chinese Foreign Minister. Dr. Wang Shih-chich. joined tiie United States in expressing his willingness to modily the veto. He added, however, that revision or elimination ot the veto was not a complete answer to the United Nations’ difficulty. "There may still remain the basic threat, namely, the tendency of the world being divided into ' blocs of nations who consider their differences to be irreconcilable.” he said. "It that tendency is allowed to go unchecked, the United Nations will inevitably become a mere forum of public debate.” Dr. Wang said the time had nowcome when all individuals and all nations were so inter-dependent that they must think ol' the common interest of the human race lest they sink and perish together. The Canadian Minister of External Affairs, Mr. Louis St. Laurent, gave a warning that seme nations may be forced to form independent mutual defence associations because the nations, in their search for peace, “will not and cannot accept indefinitely and unaltered a Security Council which has become frozen in futility and divided by dissentions.

“Let us not forget that the provisions of the Charter are the floor under rather than the ceiling over the responsibilities of member States,” he added. Familiar Soviet Line

Commenting on M. Vyshinsky's speech, the head of the British delegation, Mr. Hector McNeil, dismissed the charges of warmongering against Britain as "propaganda.” He added that lie was familiar with many of the quotations in the speech because Moscow radio had been following this line for some time. The resolution by which the United Nations would urge members to punish as a crime war propaganda was not to be treated as a serious resolution, but merely as propaganda tactics. Mr. McNeil shook hands heartily with M. Vyshinsky at the end of the session. He said the speech was an excellent performance. The New York Times, in a leader, says: “Evidently the Soviet delegate came prepared to launch this assault on the United States —it is to be hoped for home consumption and to impress the Soviet satellies. This screed was to have been this year's offensive, but he was taken off base by Mr. Marshall’s attack on Russia as the obstacle to peace, the saboteur of the United Nations, so that his reports have the sputtering effect of angry retorts. “The chief criminal is the free press. He would suppress war propaganda in any form by Government control of tbs press. But there is a significant and hopeful point noted by many Assembly delegates as the angry echoes died away. The speech contained no hint that" the Soviet has any thought of walking out of the United Nations. Evidently it intends to maintain its nuisance value.”