Sir Carl Berendsen, N.Z. Representative At U.N., Denounces Soviet Proposal

Wanganui Chronicle, 17 November 1949, Page 5

Sir Carl Berendsen, N.Z. Representative At U.N., Denounces Soviet Proposal

Likens Russian Charges To "Childish Absurdities" Of Nazis

NEW YORK, Nov. 15 (Ree. 7.15 pm).—Sir Carl Berendsen, New Zealand representative at United Nations, today denounced the Soviet proposal for a “Big Five’’ Peace Pact put forward by Mr. Vyshinsky yesterday as “one in a long series of phony resolutions for purely propaganda purposes.”

He drew an analogy between the present Soviet charges and the “childish absurdities” of Nazi propaganda in the 1930’5. • Sir Carl, who was speaking in the | United Nations Political Committee’s debate on the Russian proposal, said: ,‘We see the guilty accusing the innocent. We see intentions attributed to others which are held by those who attribute them. We see again repeated the shrieks of the warmonger which Hitler used.” Sir Carl said New Zealand would vote against all paragraphs in the Soviet resolution on the ground that not one of them was a genuine attempt to meet the situation in the world today. New Zealand would support the essentials of the United States-British resolution. The Yugoslav delegate, Milovan Djiias, charged Russia with appealing before the United Nations as a champion of peace while exerting military, economic and political pressure in efforts to oust Marshal Tito. Djiias also assailed the Western Powers for "conducting war propaganda” and said Yugoslavia could not support in their entirey either the Russian or the United States-British proposals. The committee adjourned until tomorrow. -