U.N.C.I.O. QUESTIONS

Grey River Argus, 11 May 1945, Page 3

U.N.C.I.O. QUESTIONS

REGIONAL AGREEMENTS Australia’s Proposal (Received May 10, 9.50 p.m.). SAN FRANCISCO. May; 9. Australia has submitted a compromise amendment to the committee that is considering how to incorporate regional security systems in the World Organisation, says an Associated Press correspondent. The amendment provides that the Security Council would act in such regional cases by a vote of seven of its members, which majority would include only three of (he Big Five. Belgium is reported to be supporting Australia. Under lh c Dumbarton Oaks formula, seven members of the Security Council, which would include Britain, America, China, Russia, and France, would have to approve before any regional organisation could try to settle a dispute threatening peace in its area. A controversy has arisen as the result of the Latin American nations desiring to have the Pan-American Union settle their localised disputes, without the Security Council’s approval. “LITTLE 42’’ NATIONS ATTACK BIG FOUR DOMINATION (Received 11.0 p.m. May 10) SAN FRANCISCO, May 9 U.N.C.1.0. Committee on the Economic Social Council voted, by twenty-five votes to three to admit World Trade Union Congress representatives as consultants. On the motion of Mr. A. A. Arutinian (Deputy Director of Economic, Soviet Foreign Office) consultants from the 1.L.0., U.N.R.R.A., United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation, and the League of Nations will also be admitted.

A “New York Herald Tribune” correspondent says: The Committee on Regional Arrangements has appointed the following nations to the committee to try to evolve a formula for dealing with regional arrangements under the world security plan: Britain, America, China, Russia, Australia, France, Chile, Colombia, Czechoslovakia, Egypt, Mexico, and Norway. A “New York Times’s” correspondent stated: Small middle nations today began to try to whittle down the Big Four’s demand, as Mr. Molotov returned to Moscow. “The Little Forty-two” opened an attack on two points previously approved by Britain. America, China, and Russia. The first of the authority of the five permanent members of the Security Council to veto the enforcement, action by the regional organisation. The second is the Council’s authority to call on the nations to send troops into action without guaranteeing them any vote on the’ question, lhe main atatacks came from Australia and Canada, two of the so-called Middle Powers, who have been saying quietly and firmly that they had certain observtions to make about the Big Five’s proposed rights. The first observation came from Dr. Evatt (Australia) who .proposed, in adidtion to the compromise of a voting formula, that, if the Security Council did not deal with a regional dispute, and did not refer it to the Regional Agency for solution, the Regional Agency should be free to take whatever action it liked under its own machinery. ( The Canadians said lhev could not accept the Dumbarton Oaks proposal. The Security Council, could demand any nations forces without, the nation or lhe General Assembly voting It is generally agreed in ban Francisco that in raising these _ two questions the Australians and Canadians have struck the heart of the U.N.C.1.0.’s most fundamental proo--16 A S ’“New York Times’s” correspondent said: It was clear at the endl ot the day that the United States delegation conceded that the agreement reached bv Britain. Russia, and China on the regulations governing regional agencies must again amended. There was general agieement among the Big Four th nt the Security Council must not be able to paralyse enforcement action by tne Pan-American Union against aggiession. POLISH ISSUE After Mr. Molotov departed Messrs Stettinius and Eden conferred with Mr. Harriman and Admit al q lal Kerr presumably to give final m studious on the Polish question Mr. Harriman and Admiral Clark Kei 1 are going to Moscow via Washing ton and London. Mr Harriman s reported to have asiced Mi. Churcn hill’s permission to confer in Lon don with Mr. Mikolajczyk (ex-Pohsh Prime Minister). POLISH DEADLOCK DISCREDITS ’FRISCO CONFERENCE. ( (Rec 11.45) ’ SYDNEY, May 10. Lieut.-Colonel W. R. Hodgson Secretary of the Commonwealth External Affairs Department, and Australian Minister-elect to. France has reached Sydney by air from the United States. He has been acting as High Commissioner lor Australia in Canada and attended the San Francisco conference. He said that the Polish question should not have been raised at the San Francisco conference. Rather than to have discussed the Polish question at San Francisco, it should have been settled in talks between Russian, British and American Ministers. Col. Hodgson added ths.t the raising of the Polish question concomitantly with the issue of the admittance of Argentina had done' a lot of harm to the standing of the conference in the eyes of the world. Col. Hodgson will leave shortly to take up his post in Paris. JEWISH MIGRATION. A MOVE IN TPIEDIRECTION OF AUSTRALIA. (Received May 10, 11.40 p.m.).. SAN FRANCISCO, May 10. The Freeland League for Jewish Territorial Colonisation have submitted a plan to U.N.C.1.0. delegates for the settlement of Jews in any country where any large-scale colonisation is possible. This proposal is made bebacuse the creation of a Jewish homeland in Palestine is beset with uncertainty. The League, in a memorandum, said that Australia, and particularly Tasmania, had expressed interest and sympathy. The Australian press, church leaders, universities, chambers of commerce, lord mayors, and the trade union movement had endorsed such a project. “BURIAL” OF THE OLD LEAGUE PROPOSED (Received 10.40 p.m May 10) SAN FRANCISCO, May 9 European and Latin-American countries have proposed that the old League of Nations shall be given a formal burial in San Francisco and that a new United Nations World Organisation be established as the sole heir of its authority. Nations which have paid dues regularly to Geneva believe this should be done because a failure to mate a formal transfer of all of the old League of Nations rights under the Versailles Treaty, might leave the way open for

Japan and for some of the other Dowers to dispute the future legality of the transfer of the territories over which they have held mandates uncici the Old League The League ot Nations possesses the. legal title to the mandated territories. Lt has a modern marble home in Geneva valued at twenty million dollars. Its files contain forty-two hundred nitei-. national treaties signed dunng c past twenty-five years, lor winch there is no other clearing house 01 storage space. FAILURE OF LEAGUE OF NATIONS (Received 11.20 p.m. May 10) WASHINGTON, May 10 Mrs. Wilson, widow of the late President Woodrow Wilson has replied to her daughter, Mrs. McAdoo s statement at San Francisco, the R - ter having said President Wilson vas pleased that the United States kept out of the League of Nations. Ms. Wilson said: Woodrow would nevei say such a thing, because . it .would have reversed everything in nis mu. ure, and contradicted his hie s struggle for the betterment o peoples and all nations ot the woi . What he did say, perhaps,, that R was better that the Americans did not join the League of Nations, just to follow him, but that they sh °uld join from their own conviction that they could not stay out. That conviction would come through a Hagic loss of young lives, tor this word war would be followed m a generation bv another, much tei This prophecy has been staitingiy fUIf WORLD COURT PROPOSAL. The U.N.C.1.0. World Court Committee has recommended a new tribunal of fifteen members to sit at The Hague, for which Judges should be appointed for a term of nine years, with one-third of the Bench to be renewable every three years. No decision was reached’ as to whether the old world court system should continue, or a new one be established. The Committee postponed consideration of the question of whether the Court should have compulsory jurisdiction. SOVIET AND ARGENTINE NEW YORK, May 10. A correspondent of the “New York Herald-Tribune” at Buenos Aires stated: Argentine police, as well as occupying the centre of the capital on Tuesday to break up United Nations victory parades, forced the removal of Soviet flags from buildings. This was apparently done as a reprisal lor M. Molotov’s opposition to the admittance of Argentina to the U.N.C.1.0., and also for the Soviet’s evident reluctance to establish diplomatic relations with Argentina while its military regime is in power.