’Our Worst Forebodings More Than Realised
FRASER ON UNO
PARIS, Tue. (11.30 a.m.). —“Our worst forebodings about the United Nations have been more than realised,” said the New Zealand Prime Minister (Mr Fraser) in the United Nations Minor Political Committee, which is discussing Western proposals to restrict the use of the veto in the Security Council. “The Security Council gives anything but security, and has become a not very pleasant debating society, acrimonious and even, venomous,” he said.
Mr Fraser favoured a general conference on the Charter. . Britain, the United States, .France and China, in a joint resolution, sought to make the Security Council a more effective instrument of world peace and put fcry/ard 35 subjects on which the veto should not operate. M. Vyshjnskv denounced the propo-
sals as a "plot and conspiracy” against-if the Charter. Defending the Soviet use of the 1 veto. M. Vyshinsky said it made it im- j. possible for two or three nations to f plot against the rest and perhaps the, United Nations as a whole. The debate was adjourned. . « Uf.
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Northern Advocate, 1 December 1948, Page 5
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