United States Proposes Peace Patrol And Military Forces To Back The United Hations

Wanganui Chronicle, 22 September 1950, Page 5

United States Proposes Peace Patrol And Military Forces To Back The United Hations

NEW YORK, Sept. 20. —The United States Secretary of State. Mr. Dean Acheson, today submitted to the General Assembly of the United Nations an American programme to combat aggression anywhere in the world. The programme includes provision for peace patrol and military forces to back up the United Nations decisions. Mr. Acheson also suggested that the Assembly should organise itself so that it could meet upon 24 hours’ notice to act on any breach of the peace on which the veto-bound Security Council could not act. Giving a major outline of United States policy in the United Nations, Mr. Acheson said a world organisation with teeth to back up its decisions might deter the Soviet Union from seeking piecemeal dismemberment of the 'nonSoviet world

Mr. Acheson proposed that the Formosa question should be placed on the Assembly agenda as a matter ot "special urgent importance.” He said the United States Government believed “the problem of Formosa and the nearly 80,000,000 people who inhabit it should not be settled by force.”

KOREAN PROBLEM. Referring to Korea, Mr. Acheson expressed confidence that the United Nations forces would be able to crush aggression there and that the country would be returned “to the custody of its own people under the guidance of the United Nations.” He did not say whether the United States wanted the United Nations forces to pursue the North Koreans north of the 38th. parallel. The American programme presented by Mr. Acheson included the following proposals: (1) Provision for the calling of ai» emergency session of the General Assembly upon 24 hours' notice if the Security Council was prevented from acting upon a breach of peace or an act of aggression. (2) The establishment by the Assembly of a peace patrol to provide immediate independent observation and reporting from any area in which an international conflict threatens. The patrol’s activities would be subject to an invitation by or the consent of the State visited. <3) The plan under which each member nation would designate, within its national armed forces, a Ui Nations unit. or units , to be specially trained, equipped and continuously maintained in readiness for prompt service on behalf of the United Nations. Mr. Acheson said that to assist in the organisation, training and equip-

ping of such units, the United States would suggest that a United Nations military adviser be appointed. Until such time as the forces provided for under Article 43 of the Charter were made available to the United Nations, the availability of these national units would be an important step towards the development of a world-wide security system. (4) The establishment by the General Assembly of the Committee to study and report on “the means by which the United Nations might use through collective action including the use of armed force to carry out the purposes and principles of the Charter.” Mr. Acheson said: “There is no longer any question, ‘will the United Nations survive, or will the United Nations suffer the fate of the League of Nations?’ This question has been answered. If by nothing else, it has been answered by the United Nations action against the aggression in Korea. Blood is thicker than ink.”

CHARGES AGAINST RUSSIA. Mr. Acheson said a pall of fear hung over the world because of “the new imperialism directed by the leaders of the Soviet Union.” He accused the Russians of raising the following five barriers to peace:— (1) Soviet efforts “to bring about the collapse of the non-Soviet worm and thereby fulfil the prediction of the Soviet theory. (2) The shroud of secrecy which the Soviet leaders have wrapped around the people and the States they control. This has nourished suspicion and misinformation in both directions. (3) The Russians’ building of arms and armies, “far beyond any requirement of defence.’’ Mr. Acheson said this was carried on while other countries were demobilising and converting their industries to peaceful purposes after the Second World War. (4) The use by the Soviet leaders of the international Communist movement for direct and indirect aggression. (5) Soviet, use of violence to impose its will and political system upon other people.