U.S. Proposes Teeth For HR To Combat Aggression

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23365, 22 September 1950, Page 5

U.S. Proposes Teeth For HR To Combat Aggression

(N.Z.P.A. —Heuter —Copyright.) NEW YORK, Sept. 20. The United States Secretary of State, Mr. Dean Acheson, today submitted to the General Assembly an American programme to combat aggression anywhere in the world.

The programme includes provision for a peace patrol and military forces to back up the United Nations’

decisions

Mr. Acheson also suggested the Assembly organise itself so it could meet upon 24 hours’ notice to act on any breach of the peace on which the veto-hound Security Council could not act.

Giving a major outline of United States policy in the United Nations, Mr. Acheson said that a world organisation with teeth to back up its decisions might deter the Soviet Union from seeking the piecemeal dismemberment of the non-Soviet world.

Mr. Acheson proposed that the Formosa question should be placed on Assembly agenda as a matter of “special and urgent importance”. He said the United States Government believed the “problem of Formosa and nearly 8.000,000 people who inhabit it should not be settled by force”. Referring to Korea. Mr. Acheson expressed confidence that the United Nations' forces would be able to crush aggression there and the country would be returned “to the custody of its own people under the guidance of the United Nations”.

He did not say whether the United States wanted United Nations' forces to pursue the North Koreans north of the 38th parallel. Proposals Outlined

The American programme presented by Mr Acheson included the following proposals:

1. Provision for (he calling of an emergency session of the General Assembly upon 24 hours’ notice if the Security Council was prevented from acting upon a breach of the peace or an act of aggression; 2. The establishment by the Assembly of a peace patrol to provide immediate, independent observation and reporting from any area in which international conflict threatens. The patrol's activities would be subject to the invitation or consent of the State

visited. 3. A plan under which each member nation would designate within its national armed forces a United Nations’ unit or units to be specially trained, equipped and continuously maintained in readiness for prompt service on behalf of the United Nations. Mr. Acheson said that to assist in organisation, training and equipping of such units, the United States would suggest that a United Nations military adviser be appointed. Until such time as forces provided for under Article 43 of the charter were made available to the United Nations, the availability_ of these national units would be an important step towards the development of a world-wide security system. 4. The establishment by the General Assembly of a committee to study and report on “means which the United Nations might use through collective action, including the use of the armed force, to carry out the purposes and principles of the charter.’’ “Blood Thicker Than Ink”

Mr. Acheson said: “There is no longer any question will the United _ Nations survive or will the United Nations suffer the rate of the League of Nations. This question has been answered. If by nothing else it has been answered by the United Nations action against aggression in Korea. Blood is thicker than ink.” Mr. Acheson said that a pall of fear hung over the world because of the