Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-10-09
Security Council
Would Control
Armed Units
Stondine Air Force
Provided; World
Court Proposed
Tert of Dnmbdrton Oaks Plan
on Page AS.
By JOSEPH H. BAIRD.

BY JOSEPH H. BAIRD.
An international security or.
ganization, including an LIMA
ton council with broad powers
to use diplomatic, economic and
military force to stem agrees
sion, is contained in the plans
drawn up by the recently con-
Guided Dumbarton Oaks confer
ence and announced to the world
today.
The announcement came stimuli
taneously at noon eastern War
Time) in the capitals of the four
participating nations and copies
were handed to representatives Of
all the United Nations.
President Roosevelt, in a state
ment issued at the White House,
said his impression of the plan was
one of extreme satisfaction and
even surprise that so much could
have been accomplished on so diff
cult a subject in so short time"
International Military Force.
After pointing out that from the
very beginning of the war this
country had begun to lay the foun-
dations for the organization of post
war peace and security, he added:
ut represents therefore, a major
objective for which this war is being
fought, and as such, it inspires the
highest hopes of the millions of
fathers and mothers whose sons and
daughters are engaged in the ter
rible struggle and suffering of war"
Under the proposed agreement,
the member nations would contribute
to an international military force,
which would include an air con-
tingent to take urgent military
measures at the direction of the
council. Both the charter of the
future peace league, as well as an
agreement on the amount of forces
to be contributed by the United
States, would be embodied in a
treaty subject to the ratification of
the Senate.
A military staff committee, COM
posed of the chief of STATS of the
permanent members of the security
council or their representatives, is
provided for in the plan. 1t would
be the committees duty to advise
and assist the council in determin.
ing military requirements for taking
effective measures to quell agrees
sion as well as to advise on the reg
ulation of armament and possible
disarmament"
Negotiations Will Continue.
If occasion should require, the
committee may invite military men
from states other than those perm
anently represented on the council
to cooperate with it.
The plan provides, in addition to
the security council, for a general
assembly of all nations, an interna-
tional court of justice and a secre-
tariat.
While several points in connec-
ton with the security plan have not
been agreed on by the United States,
Great Britain, Russia and China.
it was said in official quarters that
negotiations among the powers
would continue almost Immediately,
There were strong indications that
the chiefs OF state of the four ma
lions, or the foreign ministers, might
confer in an effort to solve out
standing problems speedily.
In an informed quarter it was
predicted that general United Ma
lions conference to agree on a final
plan might still be held this year.
The draft of the agreement resulting
from the Dumbarton Oaks meeting
was given to other members of the
United Nations today simultaneous
with its release to the press.
Vote Procedure Undecided.
II Matters in which agreement still
Is not complete include the question
of voting procedure within the
council, particularly as to whether
a state which was party to dis
quite before the council would have
the right to ballot It is UNDER
stood that Russia has been insisting
that such states would have a vote.
Other matters still under consid-
Grafton are:
i l. Drafting of a statute for the
court of international justice.
! 2. Future of the existing League of
Nations.
8. Liquidation of the present
League of Nations system of man
date over backward territories.
i The outstanding point in the
Dumbarton Oaks draft, which diff
ferentiates it sharply from the old
League of Nations is the extremely
broad powers given the council
which will consist eventually of the
| United States, Great Britain, Russia
and China and France as permanent
members and six other nations to be
elected by the assembly as nonper-
. menent members.
Wide Jurisdictions Provided.
/ The powers of the council, out
. lined In Chapter of the draft plan
! provide virtually unlimited jurisdic-
ton over all international disputes
/, endangering the peace Of the world
j The council is given authority te
investigate any dispute on its owr
initiative. Also any nation, whether
q member Of the United Nation.
. peace organization or not, will have
the right to bring disputes to the
attention of either the assembly OF
J council
q The salient sections of Chapter ,
are contained in Paragraphs to
; which read:
8 cd THE parties to any dispute
the continuance Of which is hkel,
: to endanger the maintenance o.
international peace and security
should obligate themselves, first o.
; all. to seek solution by negotia.
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