IS U.N.O. ASSEMBLY ONLY STALKING HORSE ?

Grey River Argus, 17 February 1949, Page 5

IS U.N.O. ASSEMBLY ONLY STALKING HORSE ?

LONDON, Feb. 15

The Foreign Secretary, Mr Ernest Bevin. in his report to Parliament on the third session of the United Nations’ General Assembly in Paris, in 1948. criticised certain delegations for their filibustering methods.. He expressed fears that the delaying tactics would increase when the session resumed in April in New York. Mr Bevin’s report, issued as a White Paper, says: “The coming New York meeting will involve member States in dollar expenditure which few can afford and will impose a heavy strain from the staffing viewpoint. The most undesirable feature of the decision to reconvene in New York, however, is the unfortunate precedent which will have been cstablished. There is indeed a real danger that the delaying tactics on the part of a certain delegation will increase as a result of this decision and the Assembly may be increasingly tempted to postpone dealing with contentious problems and limit itself more and more to taking decisions on matters of less importance. “As was the case with the previous session, the discussions in Paris merely served to reflect the conflict between the views of the Western and Eastern Powv”