NEW LEAGUE CHRISTENED

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 80, 9 June 1945, Page 5

NEW LEAGUE CHRISTENED

ENTHUSIASM AND HOPE AT 'FRISCO ENDING OF VETO DEADLOCK San Francisco, June 8. The five great Powers have solved the deadlock over interpretation of the Yalta voting formula for considering international disputes. It has been agreed that no member of the security council in the proposed world security organisation can rule out discussion of any dispute. The formula which brought about the agreement has not yet been publicly announced. The atmosphere among the delegates has been changed to one of enthusiasm and hope. Arrangements are now being made for the final meetings of committees and the assembly.

The new world organisation was officially christened to-day the “United Nations.”

M. Dmitry Manuilsky, head of the Ukrainian delegation, who is chairman of the technical committee which is in charge of naming the organisation, told the Press that the committee unanimously accepted his proposal that the organisation should be called the United Nations in homage to the late President Roosevelt, who first used the phrase to name the Allied wartime coalition.

The New Zealand and Australian delegations are making plans for their trip home, feeling that they have made important contributions to liberalising the new world charter, says the “New York Times” correspondent. They are not completely satisfied, but, with the backing of New Zealand and other small countries, Australia has succeeded to some extent in playing the role of spokesman and leader for the small and middle Powers which France, now a member of the “Big Five,” played at the former conferences.

“Mr Fraser has co-operated closely on the lines of the Canberra agreement,” the correspondent says. “Outside the ‘Big Five,’ no country has been more assiduous than Australia at the conference. Mr Fraser has been recognised as one of the leading intellectual figures of the conference. “He and his delegation came here to fight for a pledge against aggression and also to support territorial integrity, and also desired more power for the assembly and less for the security council. He has taken the position that the small nations realise th e “Big Three” are the only Powers that can keep the peace, and also that it would be ridiculous to submit questions of aggression to a vote of the small Powers. “Mr Fraser has made it clear that the nations should build sluice-gates to allow the waters of progress to flow smoothly rather than dams to hold them back. One consolation if the sluice-gates are not provided, he feels, is that no great Power or group of Powers has ever been able to shackle mankind .indefinitely—that the bonds will burst some day one way or another.”