ENDURING WORLD PEACE

Southland Times, Issue 25668, 10 May 1945, Page 5

ENDURING WORLD PEACE

Pledge Of UNCIO Delegates (Rec. 9 p.m.) SAN FRANCISCO, May 8. The UNCIO delegates marked V Day by pledging themselves anew to establish the foundations for permanent world peace. A one minute’s silence was observed at 1 a.m. Brief speeches were made at 12.15 a.m. The Soviet delegation did not participate, the spokesman explaining that the fighting was still going on. It was assumed that the Russian representatives were awaiting the official announcement from, M. Stalin.

Tire United States Secretary of State, Mr Edward R. Stettinius, said: “This day of victory must for us be a day of remembrance and dedication. It has given a new urgency to UNCIO’S work. The fighting is not yet over. We have still to win the same full and final victory over Japan.” The British Foreign Secretary, Mr Anthony Eden, said: “The hour for which we have waited so long is here. The feeling uppermost in all our minds is not of triumph, but of thankfulness.” Mr Eden said that the' world must now turn to the task of destroying Japan, whose militarists must now see the handwriting on the wall. UNCIO’s Executive Committee agreed that vital decisions by plenary sessions and by the commission’s committees should be made by a two-thirds majority, says the United Press correspondent. The Steering Committee has approved of the proposal which is now the subject of ratification by a plenary session. MAJOR POINTS OF DIFFERENCE The Big Five discussed international trusteeships and are reported to have found the following major points of difference arising primarily from conflicting British and American viewpoints: — (1) Whether a country administering a dependent territory should be allowed to impose its own economic rules, or whether, as the Americans desire, all countries should be treated the same. (2) Whether the Social and Economic Council would deal with trusteeships as the British proposed, or whether the General Assembly should assume the task as the Americans suggest. (3) Whether there should be separate types of administration for strategic and . non-strategic areas as the Americans urge, or only one as the British propose. (4) Whether the World Organization should be allowed to investigate the administration, of trusteeships as desired by the United States. The Associated Press says that the Latin American delegates are organizing a movement to gain recognition in the World Organization for the interAmerican security system. The 16 Latin-American representatives after a meeting expressed firm opposition . to compromising on what they consider to be the American Republics’ right to settle disputes in their own hemisphere

without awaiting the World Organization’s approval and even without the approval of the United States, whose delegation has split on the issue. The Latin-Americans have a bloc of 20 votes. Some of the United States delegates support the Latin-Americans’ contention that they should be free to use force without a world agency’s consent. Others consider that the European nations could band together and demand similar rights, thus impairing the World Organization’s effectiveness.