Evening star., 1943-04-07
Creation Of Council
To Draft Policies
Of Allies Proposed
Quebec Porley Report
Also Urges Subsidiary
Agency for Pacific Area
8y the Associated Press.

BY bQS Associated Press.
Creation of a policy-making
United Nations council, with a
subsidiary regional council for
the Pacific area, was proposed in
a report of the Institute of Pacific
Relations, made public today.
Reporting on the Institutes con-
ference at Mont Tremblant, Quebec,
last December, w. L. Holland, re-
search secretary, said protests were
beginning to be heard against an ex-
cessive Anglo-American dominance
tn the conduct of the war"
Entitled "War and Peace in the
Pacific" the report was prepared for
distribution at an institute luncheon
at which Undersecretary of State
Welles was to speak.
coupled often with pleas for in
creased Chinese participation In the
higher war councils, there were sug-
gestions for the blishment of an
effective executive council at least
of the larger United Nations" the
report said, adding:
"In all these criticisms there was
a growing realization that not only
the prosecution of the war, but, even
more, the better preparation for
peace and postwar reconstruction
would be badly handicapped unless
the present nominal association of
the United Nations is translated into
functioning policy making organ
Dr.. Sao-ke Alfred SEE, former Chi
neSe Ambassador to Washington
proposed the executive council Of the
United Nations, to include at least
the United States, Great Britain,
China and Russia.
HALEY Suggests Zone Council.
Lord HALEY, leader of the British
group. suggested the Pacific zone
council, to conSist Of representatives.
of the sovereign powers concerned,
with headquarters in North America.
In round-table discussion these were
identified as China, Canada. Aus
tralia, New Zealand, Thailand,
France, the Netherlands and Neither
land East Indies, United Kingdom,
United States and Russia. Its double
junction would be:
/. ITO take charge of the civil &C
tivities. as local agency, of what
ever organization may be established
by the United Nations for safeguard
ing the peace of Asia in common
with other parts of the world.
2. ITO secure, by joint consultation
and cooperative action, a common
policy, so far as may be, in the eco
nomic development and in the tariff
and customs arrangements within
this zone"
The Indians and Chinese, particu-
larly, criticized the Pacific War
Council and other existing agencies,
it was said, on the ground that
some of the member countries are
insufnciently represented in the
ron-military phases of the conduct
of the war and especially In the
making of policies They also felt
that the existing agencies were not
sufficiently co-ordinated.'
Check on Japan Proposed.
Some delegates recommended the
delaying or disrupting" of Japan's
economic development Of the con-
quered territories, such as the Meth
erland Indies.
Repeatedly the round table (on
China was reminded of the danger
of letting Japan make her DISPOSE
tions unchecked while the western
powers disposed of unfinished busi-
ness in Europe" the report said.
1T is important to keep Japan
off balance so that she might not
consolidate her present political and
military position. +"*
1T was felt by several that the
recapture of Burma should rank
high in the list of military priorities,
some even placing it second in i'm
portance to the North African cam
paign.'
Security Stressed.
1t was the view of most men,
berS," the report said, that the Brit
ish, Dutch, French and American
dependencies in the Pacific, re-
captured from Japan, should be re
turned to their sovereign powers"
pending steps for their advancement
toward government.
The round table on India stressed
the need for some form of collective
security, including the United
States"
"Only thus will it be possible to
break the vicious circle of United
States isolationism and unwilling
ness to accept future foreign re-
sponsibilities, on the one hand the
report said, and on the other, Brit
ish imperialism and reluctance to
give up control over territories with
out assurance as to what new form
of control will succeed their present
rule"
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