Brazil’s Plan For Egypt Outvoted

Northern Advocate, 30 August 1947, Page 5

Brazil’s Plan For Egypt Outvoted

' (Rec. 10.0 a.m.) NEW YORK. Aug. 29. The Brazilian proposal to call on Egypt and Britain to resume direct . negotiations in their dispute, over the presence of British troops in Egypt and the joint administration of the Sudan, failed in the Security Council yesterday because it was one short i of the required seven votes. Brazil, the United States, Australia, L China, France and Belgium voted in c the affirmative. Poland opposed the proposal, , Russia, Syria and Colombia abstaining i from voting. M. Gromyko (Russia) said it would be fruitless to ask Britain and Egypt } to resume negotiations while British troops remained on Egyptian soil, j NEW RESOLUTION , After the defeat of the motion ' Senor Alfonso Lopez (Colombia) introduced a resolution calling upon Britain \ and Egypt to resume direct negotiaevacuation at the earliest possible date, tions with a view to completing the ’ and for the termination of the joint administration of the Sudan with due regard to the rights of the Sudanese. The resolution .also sought mutual | assistance by Egypt and Britain to guarantee the liberty of the Suez CanAl and the termination of the present joint administration of the AngloEgyptian Sudan with due regard to the self-determination of peoples and self government. Nokrashy Pasha (Egypt) strongly objected to the resolution, saying that no progress could be made until the British troops had left Egypt. M. Gromyko asked for time to study the new resolution and the council adjourned until today. ANTI-BRITISH SLOGANS Before the meeting began about 30 men and women, carrying the banner of the American National Maritime Union and United States and Egyptian flags, demonstrated outside the gates of the United Nations building. They were led by the two Egyptian extremists who recently caused disturbances in the Security Council chamber. Shouting anti-British slogans, the demonstrators threatened to force their way into the building, but were dissuaded by guards. After the demonstrators had dispersed the two Egyptians again tried to enter but were told that the SecretaryGeneral had ordered their exclusion. FRAYED IN STREET One of the Egyptians thereupon spread his prayer mat in a car-park-ing area, faced the east and prayed. He then left with his companion. A message from Cairo says the assistant to the Nationalist Party leader (Hafez Ramadan) said his chief ; was studying the severance of AngloEgyptian relations and the establishment of relations with Poland and , Russia, because those two countries had supported Egypt in The United \ jSTations. Egyptian police fired on Cairo de- j monstrators protesting against the j United Nations Security Council. The police tried to disperse the de- ' monstrators with sticks, and the demonstrators retaliated with stones. The crowd dispersed and regrouped several times, increasing in size on each j occasion. ( Police then fired. <