TEETH FOR LEAGUE OF NATIONS

Timaru Herald, Volume CLVII, Issue 23216, 1 June 1945, Page 5

TEETH FOR LEAGUE OF NATIONS

UNCIO Opens Discussion (8.40 p.m.) SAN FRANCISCO, May 30. UNCIO to-day began discussing how to put teeth into the new League of Nations, also how to keep the Allied coalition functioning between the end of this conference and the ratification of the World Security Charter. The correspondent of the “New York Times” says it is generally assumed that in spite of the opposition to the Big Five veto on peaceful procedures, the veto will remain and will be adopted unwillingly by two-thirds of the delegations. The United States has now approved the creation of at least some interim machinery to arrange for taking over the functions of the League of Nations to deal with the problems of preparing for the first meeting of the General Assembly and Security Council and make recommendations about the permanent seat of the world organisation. Hie Big Five are understood to have agreed that steps must be taken to speed up the military agreements which will put the necessary forces and facilities at the Security Council’s disposal. The Big Five technical committee rejected the French proposal that the land forces of the powerful nations should be permanently located in strategic areas such as the Ruhr Valley, but accepted in principle the proposal to write into the Charter a stipulation that all nations should grant the right of passage through their territories when requested.