The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-24

WOulQ then DC up to the Council to keep nominating others until it found a satisfactory candidate.
 The Secretary General would serve as secretary of the Security Council. the General Assembly, the Economic and Social Council, but he would have no vote. But his powers would be considerable. He could call to the attention of the Security Council any situation threatening the peace of the world. This is new power not enjoyed by the secretary of the League of Ma tions.
 He would be director of the or gantzation'S 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 departments of the organization.
 Once year he would have to report to the Assembly on the work of the organization and this annual message would likely become it's official history.
 THE CHARTER COULD
 BE AMENDED
 That the final charter to be drawn up by all the United Nations in their meeting next year will not be complete or unalterable docu- ment is indicated by Chapter XI of the Dumbarton 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 hav- ing permanent seats on the Security Council and by majority of the nations having seats in the As- Sembly. Failure to ratify by any one of the big five nations would veto an amendment under this proposal.
 Provision is also made for a transitional arrangement to main tain peace and security, pending the time when the United Nations organization can be set up. which may take year or possibly more. In this interim period, the four nations represented at Dumbarton Oaks-the United States, Great Britain, Soviet Russia and China would agree to consult with each other and with other nations un- der provisions of the Declaration of Moscow signed in 1943.
 It also provides that nothing es- tablished by the charter shall be in conflict with the terms of peace imposed on the defeated nations of Germany and Japan.
 THERE IS MUCH
 LEFT UNSETTLED
 It becomes apparent from the foregoing attempt to analyze the proposals for a United Nations or- ganization in detail, that the repre- sentatives of the four nations meet ing at Dumbarton Oaks tried to foresee every important question that might arise Nevertheless, there were a number of questions on which these 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 Security Council, as previously discussed; exact status of the new International Court of Justice as continuation of the old World Court at The Hague; man. ner of liquidating the old League of Nations functions and properties; the whole question of mandates established by the Treaty of Yer sailles; a definition of "peace-lov- ing states" and an act of aggres- sion; there was no discussion of military quotas to be made avail able to the Security Council for enforcing peace.
 What 1t needs now is much dis cussion, in and out of Congress, to clarify public sentiment, determine public interest. dictate what na- tional policy should be and what obligations this nation is ready to assume in promoting its own gen. era1 welfare through international cooperation and in preventing future