The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-12-12
. BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON .

Council any situation threaten
ing the peace of the world. This
is a new power not enjoyed by
the secretary of the League of
Nations.
He would be director of the
organizations permanent staff.
the international civil service
which would develop, just as it
did in the League, to do the
housekeeping and the chief
clerking for the various depart
ments of the organization.
Once a year he would have to
report to the Assembly on the
work of the organization and
this annual message would likely
become its official history.
THE CHARTER COULD
BE AMENDED
That the final charter TO be
drawn up by all the United Ma
tons in their meeting next
year will not be a complete or
unalterable document is indi-
Gated by Chapter XII of the Dunn
barton Oaks proposals, which
outlines provision for amend
ments. Three steps are indicated
by which the charter may be
changed. First the Assembly
must pass an amendment by
tWo-thirds vote. Then it must be
ratified by the governments of
all five nations having perman-
ent seats on the Security Council
and by a majority of the nations
having seats in the Assembly.
Failure to ratify by anyone of
the big five nations would veto
an amendment under this pro-
poSal.
Provision is also made for
transitional arrange m ent to
maintain peace and security,
pending the time when the
United Nations organization can
be set up, which may take a
year or possibly more.
In this interim period, the four
nations represented at Dunbar
ton Oaks-the United States,
Great Britain, Soviet Russia and
China-Would agree to consult
with each other and with other
nations under provisions of the
Declaration of Moscow signed
in 1943.
1t also provides that nothing
established by the charter shall
be in conflict with the terms
imposed on the defeated nations
OF Germany and Japan.
THERE is MUCH LEFT
UNSETTLED
1t becomes apparent from the
foregoing attempt to analyze the
proposals for a United Nations
organization in detail, that the
representatives of the four ma
tons meeting at DEmbarton
Oaks tried to foresee every i'm
portant question that might
arise. Nevertheless, there were
number of questions on which
technicians in their seven weeks
of deliberation could not agree.
One of these unsettled points
was the question of voting and
the veto power of one of the five
permanent members of the Sc
curity Council, as previously
discussed; exact status of the
new international Court Of
Justice as a continuation of the
World Court at The Hague;
manner Of liquidating the old
League of Nations functions and
properties; the whole question
OF mandates established by the
Treaty of Versailles; a definition
Of "peace-loving states" and an
act of aggression; there was no
discussion Of military quotas TO
be made available to the Secur-
ity Council for enforcing peace.
What it needs now is much
discussion, in and out of Con-
sress, TO clarity public senti-
ment, determine public interest,
dictate what national policy
should be and what obligations
this nation is ready to assume
in promoting its own general
welfare through international
cooperation and in preventing