Britain Proposes Middle Course

Northern Advocate, 18 October 1947, Page 7

Britain Proposes Middle Course

(New Zealand Press Assn—Reuters—Copyright)

(Received 11.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, October 17. SIR HARTLEY SHAWCROSS (Britain) appealed to the UNO Assembly’s political committee today to try to picture international politics as something other than a perpetual struggle whereby one side tried to get the better of the other. He urged the committee to adopt the British modification ot the United States’ “Little Assembly” plan, saying it represented a middle-way between the rather large powers the United States proposed and the Soviet’s almost total opposition ( thereto.

Under the British proposal, the “Is it too late to substitute reaLittle Assembly would not be allowedsoned discussion for that of terror and

to send investigating committees into abuse' any country unless that country Sir Hartley declared that there was agreed. no problem facing the world which This, in effect, would give every could not be resolved provided it was United Nations member a limited discussed frankly and forthrightly veto over the group’s activities. with goodwill and without humbug. The British plan also specified that The committee which it was proposed the Little Assembly would take up the Assembly should establish was only problems which it was decided experimental for one year, by a two-thirds majority were urgent Could not the delegates appioach and important. it in that spirit and make it help toAnother section of the British ward a solution of the worlds dilmotion was designed to concentrateferences? the Little Assembly’s attention on Sir Hartley added sarcastically, issues affecting peace. “M. Vyshynsky conjured up a b oo “Why is it that our Soviet friends—curdling picture of warmongers, for we want them to be our friends— Fascist beasts, goblins and ghosts enare so frightened'of discussion, forgaged in some dark plot, some deep discussion, after all, is what we con-machination to subjugate and set template here? aside the United Nations’ charter in “Is it too late to try to put aside order to prevent the Soviet delegavituperation, recrimination and in-tion exercising the ,veto m the flamatory and provocative speeches, altruistic way it always does for the one leading to another, with sus-protection of small powers, who, 1 picions and talk of war? am afraid, are most ungrateful.