SHARP CLASH

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22445, 27 September 1947, Page 7

SHARP CLASH

RUSSIA AND WEST ADMISSION TO U.N. FORMER ENEMY STATES (N.Z.P.A.—Reuter— Copyright.) (11 a.m.) NEW YORK, Sept. 26. Another argument over the admission of new members to the United Nations began yesterday in the Security Council when Poland, supported by the Soviet, moved that Italy, Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria and Finland be admitted en bloc. Britain and the United States supported Italy’s application, but opposed all the others. They demanded that a separate vote be taken on each. M. Gromyko, Russia, said that Britain and the United States were violating the Potsdam agreement which required that all ex-enemy States should be treated without discrimination. He was willing to support Italy’s application which he vetoed last month because the peace treaty with Italy was not then effective, but only on condition that the other applicants were admitted simultaneously. Mr. Herschel Johnson, United States, said the council was not bound to grant applications by countries whose behaviour did not entitle them to membership. . „ . . M. Gromyko, as president for tins month, finally agreed in deference to the majority’s wishes to put a vote on each application separately. After discussions on Hungary s application. which Mr. Johnson opposed because of the new regime’s “persistent violation of human rights,' the debate adjourned without a vote being taken, until September 29.