U.N.C.I.O. DIFFERENCES

Grey River Argus, 10 May 1945, Page 5

U.N.C.I.O. DIFFERENCES

BRITAIN AND U.S.A. Latin-American Stand (Rec. 9.0) SAN FRANCISCO, May 8. The U.N.C.1.0.’s Executive Committee agreed that vital decisions by the plenary sessions, the commissions and the committees be made by twothirds majority, says a United Press correspondent. The Steering Committee has approved this proposal, which is now subject to ratification by a plenary session. The Big . Five discussed international trusteeships. It -is reported they found the following major points of difference, arising, primal’- 4 ily, from the conflicting British and American viewpoints:— , , (1) Whether the country administering a dependent territory should be allowed to impose its own economic rules, or whether, as the Americans desire, all countries should be i treated to the same economic relations with the area under guardianS \P ) Whether the Social Economic Council would deal with the trusteeships, as the British propose, or the General Assembly should assume the task, as the Americans suggest. (3) Whether there should be separate types of administration for strategic and non-strategic areas, as the Americans urge, or only one, as the British propose. (4) Whether the World Organisation should be allowed to investigate the administration of the trusteeships as desired by the United States. The Associated Press says: The Latin-American Republican delegates are organising a movement to gain recognition in the World Organisation for the inter-American security system embodied in the Act of Chapultepec. Sixteen Latin-American representatives, aftei’ a meeting, expressed their firm opposition to compromising on what they consider is the American Republics’ right to settle their disputes in their own hemisphere without awaiting the World Organisation’s approval, and even without the United States, whose delegation is split on this issue. The Latin-Americans have a bloc of twenty votes. Some'of the United States delegates support the Latin-Americans’ contention that they should be free to use force without any world agency’s consent. Others consider that European nations could band together and demand similar rights, thus impairing the World Organisation’s effectiveness. (Rec. 10.15) SAN FRANCISCO, May 9. The United States to-night offered Britain, Russia, China and France a formula for relating the PanAmerican security system to the new World Organisation, says the “New York Times” correspondent. James Reston. “There is every indication that the problem will be solved soon. The formula provides that the Security Council shall authorise the Pan-American system to deal with its own disputes until the World Security Organisation is charged by States concerned with | primary responsibility for dealing with western hemisphere disputes. If a dispute endangered peace in other areas, the World Security Council alone would deal with it. This more polite formula would have the same effect as a direct prohibition. Some members of the United States delegation are still opposed to the Security Council dealing with western disputes in this hemisphere. They feel that the Council’s authority should be restricted as little as possible, but; pressure from the Latin-American Republics and from the United States Senate for some independence in dealing with western hemisphere disputes are expected to result in the acceptance of the formula. M. Molotov, Mr Harriman and Admiral Clark-Kerr are leaving for Moscow to-day with the Polish problem unsolved. Mr Gromyko will now lead the Soviet delegation at U.N.C.1.0. General Juin, French Chief of Staff, is leaving for Paris u to-day io direct French occupation of part of Germany. ‘ I

WORLD CHARTER. MR. EDEN’S HOPES. SAN FRANCISCO, May 7. Mr. Eden, broadcasting, said: The U.N.C.1.0. will draw up a world charter which will do much, but not all, toward insuring world peace when Japan has been brought to the same overwhelming defeat which Germany has now suffered. Mr. Eden described U.N.C.I.O’s. work as an essential task, but warned that united determination to make the projected world organisation work was even more important than efforts to produce a perfect charter here. “So far, though progress has perhaps been inevitably slow, it has on the whole been encouraging. I am confident that we are going to agree on the charter. I have hopes that it will be a better document than anything of its kind that has existed in the world so far. Of course it won’t be perfect, but the great thing is to get it going.” Mr. Eden hailed the victory in Europe as bewildering, but majestic. The triumphant hour called for an intensification of the British and American war effort in the Far East until the bells tolled for the Japanese as they had already tolled for Hitler. SPANISH JUNTA IN FRANCE. SAN FRANCISCO, May 8. Senor F'rieto, War Minister of the last Spanish Republican Government, told the United Press that ■ France had consented to the establishment of an anti-Franco Spanish Liberation Junta on French soil. The decision had been reached after discussions with French officials at San Francisco, including M. Bidault. The Junta is a coalition of four parties, the Spanish Labour Party, the Union Party, the Catalonian Action Republican Party, and the Republican Left Party.