Chile Seeks U.N. Probe
NEW YORK, Fri. (11.30 a.m.). -r Chile has filed a foi-mal protest with the United Nations asking the Security Council to investigate the charges made by the Czech delegate (M. Jan Papanek) against Russia. The United Press reports that Russia will be named in the council as the engineer of the February 20 coup in which Czech Communists seized power.
United Nations observers expressed the belief that it will perhaps be the most serious matter ever handled in the United Nations.
The Secretary-General of UNO (Mr Lie) shelved a similar request from M. Jan Papanek, becaus'e it did not originate with a member Government. FINALITY DISCOUNTED The Chilean delegate, Herman Santa Cruz, filed the letter of complaint, which' after repeating M. Papanck’s charge that “the. political independence of Czechoslovakia has been violated through the threat of the use of force by Russia,” says that the Security Council must make an investigation in accordance with the Charter. The letter adds that the Government of Chile believes that v the authoritative accusation of the permanent representative of Czechosloavakia is of such gravity that a mere question of formal procedure must not be allowed to prevent the organ specifically charged with safeguarding world peace and security from practising the necessary investigation in order to establish its truth. PEACE ENDANGERED
The letter, after saying that the world faced a repetition of the actions and methods that Nazi Germany emplayed, says; “Peace and securitw are in imminent danger because of international action contrary to the Charter on the part of a member state against another state.”
The letter calls on the United Nations to employ all means provided by the Charter “to prevent, before it is too late, these actions and these methods from fulfiling execution of a plan, the designs and range of which it is not difficult to imagine.”
The complaint has been placed on the agenda of the Security Council for March 17.
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Northern Advocate, 13 March 1948, Page 7
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