Evening star., 1945-08-03
Security Committee
Delegates Will Leave
orLondon Next Week
BY JOSEPH H. BAIRD.

BY JOSEPH H. BAIRD.
Two American representative
it was learned. today, plan t
leave for London early mex
week to attend the first meeting
of the executive committee o
the preparatory commission
which will pave the way for tn
United Nations security organ
ization recently formed at tn,
San Francisco Conference. Tn,
committee is tentatively sched
uled to meet next Thursday.
This meeting marks the first of.
fetal step in a long series which
must be taken before the United
Nations organization is a living
functioning force. Oficials here dc
not expect that the Assembly anc
council will come into being befor,
the first part of next year at tn,
earliest.
Those leaving for London are
Donald Blaisdell and Max Gideons
both State Department technical
experts. They will join another
State Department official, Ber
Gerig, who is already in the British
capital.
Stettinius Not Going.
Former Secretary of State Edward
R. Stettinius, Americas representa-
tive on the Preparatory Commission
and delegate-designate to the Sc
curity Council, does not intend to
go to the preliminary meeting next
week, his associates said And they
were unable today to say who would
head the American group in London
next week.
The Executive Committee is COM
posed Representatives of the same
IA nations which formed the Ex-
ecutive Committee of the San
Francisco Conference. They are:
Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile,
China, Czechoslovakia, France, Iran,
Mexico, the Netherlands, Soviet
Russia, the United Kingdom, the
United States and Yugoslavia.
According to an agreement on in
term arrangements drawn up in
San Francisco, the Executive Com
mittee is empowered to exercise all
the functions of the Preparatory
Commission when the latter-com-
posed Of representatives of all the
United Nations-is not In session.
The larger group, the commission,
is not expected to convene until the
United Nations Charter comes into
effect through its ratification by
the United States, Great Britain,
China, Russia, France and a ma
jority of the other signatories.
VIII Do Spade Work.
The purpose of the meeting next
week is to do spade work on the
numerous tasks which must be car
ried out by the full commission
before the United Nations organi-
zation finally comes into being.
Among these are:
/. Preparation of an agenda for
the first session Of the Assembly
and council and other organs of
the United Nations.
2. Formulation of recommended
tions on the transfer of certain
functions, activities and assets OF
the old League of Nations to the
new security organization.
3. Issuance of invitations to the
rot fn Nominate r0nHf-
dates for judgeships on the Inter
national Court of Justice.
4. Preparations for plans for set
ting up the secretariat Of the United
Nations. egl5
5 Preparation of recommends
tions for the location Of the per-
nanent headquarters Of the United
Nations.
Controversial Question.
Finally, the full commission is as
signed the role of calling the first
meeting of the United Nations As
sembly into being. When that Is
done and the secretariat is estab-
lished, the Preparatory Commission
will cease to exist.
One of the most interesting and
perhaps controversial questions to
come up in London will be the selec-
ton of a permanent home for the
United Nations. The old League of
Tations owns property worth mil
Hons of dollars in Geneva, where,
shortly before 1t entered its period
of decline, it had built sumptuous
headquarters.
However, observers here believe
it highly improbable that the new
league will select Geneva as its
headquarters. Psychologically, that
city evokes too many memories Of
the tragic failure Of the earlier or
ganization.
Truly International.
Also, it is pointed out, the new
United Nations will be a truly in
ternational organization, in which
the states of the Western Hemis-
phere and Asia will play role
equally important with those Of Eu-
rope, whereas the League Of Nations,
in its latter days, became primarily
European organization. The
United States was never mem
ber, and Japan withdrew after the
Manchurian incident.
In view of the world character of
the new organization, its headquar-
ters may not even be in Europe.
There is at least possibility that
it may be located In the Western
Hemisphere.
Seven Die in Czech Blast;