“MUST STICK TO U.N.,” SAYS EVATT

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22818, 13 December 1948, Page 5

“MUST STICK TO U.N.,” SAYS EVATT

(10 a.m.)

PARIS, Dec. 12.

Summing up the three months’ United Nations* meeting, the president, Dr. H. V. Evatt, said: “Foremost among the Assembly’s achievements are the proclamation of a universal declaration of human rights and the submission to member Governments of an international convention to outlaw genocide.

“In the political field we reinforced our newly assumed conciliation functions in Greece, Palestine and also in the conflict between the Great Powers. “At the same time the United Nations assumed far-reaching responsibilities for emergency relief for thousands of refugees from the Palestine combat areas.

“Some major political problems remain to be dealt with in New York in April, Foremost among them is the disposal of the former Italian colonies, another legacy from the great Powers' disagreement.

“Don’t Sell U.N. Short”

"The problem of voting in the Security Council, the creation of United Nations’ guards and the convention on freedom of information remain to be dealt with. At a time when there is danger of war the United Nations is the nlace to which the disagreements and conflicts of the world should be brought.” The Associated Press correspondent in Paris says Dr. Evatt said: “Don’t sell the United Nations short. You will make a great blunder if you do. You have to stick to the United Nations. That is all you have.

“In one form or another, all great problems are being dumped into the United Nations. There is a kind of fetish to blame the United Nations for not doing anything. People say the debates are too long. I cannot understand this. That is the essence of the democratic system. Far from feeling frustrated I feel better about it.” Among the farewell remarks made in the dying hours of the session, the Secretary-General, M. Trygve Lie, said the United Nations was and would remain the most powerful existing force for peace.

“The danger to peace arising from the conflict between the great Powers remains serious. The unsolved conflicts of the great Powers continue to curse the world and the United Nations.”

The acting chairman of the United States delegation, Mr, John Foster Dulles, said that future aggressors would have to reckon with solid and not divided resistance, That was the deterrent to war and a fact that should dispel the fear which tended to paralyse the will to recovery. The chief of the Russian delegation, M. Vyshinsky, in a broadcast, repeated his assertions that Britain and the United States were “abandoning themselves to an armament race and a war psychosis.” M. Vyshinsky declared that Mr. Hector McNeil’s statement that Britain was disarming was false. He denied the Soviet Union’s attitude was undermining international confidence.