MOVE TO SET UP AN INTERIM U.N.O.

Wanganui Chronicle, 17 October 1947, Page 5

MOVE TO SET UP AN INTERIM U.N.O.

RUSSIA CONDEMNS IT

U.S.A. WANTS CONFIDENCE RESTORED IN CHARTER

New York, Oct. 14. The Soviet renewed a bitter attack on American "warmongers today, when Mr. John Foster Dulles (United States) moved a resolution in the Assembly’s Political Committee calling for the establishment of an interim "little United Nations Assembly. ’ Mr. Vyshinsky (Russia), who has already described Mr. Dulles as a warmonger, said Mr. Dulles, in advocating the plan,” forgot, or did not dare to say, that war propaganda and war psychosis are rampant.” Mr. Dulles, introducing the resolution, said the establishment of an interim committee of the General Assembly was necessary to enable the Assembly to discharge its responsibilities under the United Nations Charter and restore confidence in the efficacy of international processes. There was widespread disillusionment today about the United Nations. One root of the trouble was that its procedures had not kept pace witn its problems. Mr. Dulles said there were already on the agenda such questions as Palestine, Greece, Korea and the Italian peace treaty. It required no great Imagination to visualise many similar problems on the agenda for the next session. If the Assembly disregarded its mounting responsibilities and tried to get along with working onlv so many weeks a year, it would be attempting to do too much in too little time, and would do nothing well. IL the present Assembly session dealt while the assembly was in recess. It would only be because of the studies made by the Palestine Inquiry Committee and the Balkans Commission while the assembly was in reccess. It was clear that if, for eight months of the year the Assembly’s doors were closed, it would fail in its duty. Mr. Dulles said he proposed that the interim committee’s main function would be: (1) To consider and investigate questions relating to the maintenance international peace, make its views known to the next regular Assembly session, and, if necessary, advise the Secretary General to call a special session; (2) To "follow tnrough” recommendations made by the regular Assembly sessions; (3) “To get under way the work necessary to enable the Assembly to make recommendations regarding the general principles of co-operation in the maintenance international peace, and to initiate studies for the purpose of promoting international co-operation in the political field; (4) To study and report to the next regular Assembly session on the advisability of establishing an interim committee on a permanent basis.

Mr. Vyshinsky claimed that the proposed committee would be a flagrant violation of the United Nations Charter, and amounted to an attempt to circumvent the required unanimity of the great Powers. The United States was trying to set up body which would work alongside the Security Council with greater powers than the council itself. The American proposal was advanced after all attempts to liquidate big Power veto failed. The General Assembly, under the Charter had a right to establish its own subsidiary organs, but the functions which the United States proposed to give the interim committee went a long way beyound any subsidiary organ, because, in eneci, they gave the committee a right to establish its own subsidiaiy organs. "The Soviet considers the Amciican proposal a step further on the way to undermining the solidarity of the United Nations,” said Mr. Vyshinsky. Dr. Evatt (Australia) said the Assembly should treat the American proposal as a possible solution to the problem of the Security Council’s failure to function. This was the real issue before the Assembly.

The committee adjourned until tomorrow.