Evening star., 1944-06-16
|Critics Ask Roosevelt
To Clarity Setup Of :.
World Peace Council
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Republicans called on Presi-
dent Roosevelt today to define
the role of small nations in a
proposed international security
council, which some legislators
said could operate militarily only
by unanimous consent of the
United States, Great Britain,
Russia and China.
Overnight study of the Presidents
statement of plans for a postwar
peace e-preserving organization pro-
duced mixed reaction in Congress
with these developments indicating
there is stormy weather ahead fol-
the administrations preliminary
scheme for international co-opera-
ton:
/. Disclosure that the rough draft
of the American plan places the
decision on military action to sup
press aggression primarily in the
hands of the Big Four" with any
one of them permitted to veto the
use of force.
2. A demand by Senator Bridges
Republican, of New Hampshire, who
has supported the Presidents for
eign policies in the past, for Mr.
Roosevelt to say whether little ma
tionS will have a representative vote
on a proposed international council
or will be "subordinated to the
Big Four"
Language Criticized
3. Criticism Of the President by
Senator Ball, Republican, of Mime
sofa, an exponent of all-out col
laboration, for using some Of the
language the so-called isolationists
have employed to oppose any effec-
tive world cooperation" in Mr.
Roosevelts declaration against "a
superstate with its own police forces
and other paraphernalias of coer-
Give power"
4. An assertion by Senator La Fol-
lette, Progressive, of Wisconsin, who
holds strong nationalistic views, that
the Presidents outline of security
aims fails to mention the most i'm
portant question: Namely, whether
this proposed organization should
be established and the United States
committed to it prior or after the
time when the broad, general terms
of the peace are known to the Con-
gress and the country"
S. General approval of the objec-
tives of the plan by most Democrats
and cautious Endorsement of its
principles by Republicans.
The President said in a statement
yesterday after a conference with
State Department officials and
others that the maintenance of
future peace and security must be
the joint task of all peace-loving
nations and that plans are being
drawn for establishment of a fully
representative" world organization
and an international court of justice
"It is our further thought" the
statement continued, that the
organization would provide for a
council, elected annually by the fully
representative body of all nations,
which would include the four major
nations and a suitable number of
other nations"
The understanding is general in
the Senate that the proposed coun-
Gil could order the use of military
force against a potential or actual
aggressor only by a. special
majority" of it's members. This would
mean, it was said, that the big
four" would have to vote unarh-
mously on this question. Similarly,
| If the "big four" voted to employ
force, the other nations could not
overrule the decision.
, Fears Split in Big Four.
Senator Ball said that under such
system, the proposed organization
would be doomed to failure.