Evening star., 1945-08-06
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By the Associated Press.

Senate leaders were reported
today to have decided to ask
Congress to set up the Office of
World Security Council delegate
without limiting the Presidents
authority to use troops.
The decision to bring the issue
squarely before the legislators in
October was said to have been
reached by Majority Leader Barkley
and Chairman Connally of the
Foreign Relations Committee.
Neither would comment on these
reports, but it was learned they had
dismissed any thought that Presi-
dent Truman might name Edward
R. Stettinius, jr., former Secretary
of State, as the delegate and pro-
ceed without further congressional
action.
Would Not Fix Powers.
But the administration-spo
resolution Senator Connally Is ex-
pected to offer shortly after the leg
islators return from their summer
fall vacation may be much less
definitive in its terms than similar
measure suggested yesterday by
Senator Vandenberg. Republican, of
Michigan.
Indications now are that the
administration leaders plan to pro-
pose merely a simple resolution
fixing Mr.. Stettinius' status as an
Ambassador, requiring Senate con-
firmation, and making him deputy
of the President. The latter would
decide how this country should
vote on the peace-keeping council.
A final decision on terms of the
legislation awaits a conference be-
tween Secretary of State Byrnes and
Senator Connally, probably this
week. But if it is presented in this
form, it will contain no definition
of the Presidents authority to use
American troops.
Senator Vandenberg, on the other
hand, proposed in letter to Mr..
Byrnes, that the President have a
free hand to vote for the use of
military contingents as
signed, to the Security Council but
that he be required to obtain prior
congressional consent for any ad-
ditional forces.
Wants Report to Congress.
The Michigan Senator would have
the President report currently to
Congress whenever he voted for
sanctions or the use of force. He
also suggested that the United
States and its inter American allies
assume the responsibility for armed
forces required to maintained peace
in this hemisphere.
Senator Vandenberg, who as a
delegate helped write the United
Nations Charter, in his letter to
Secretary Byrnes expressed the opin-
ion a law establishing the Office OF
United States delegate on the Secur-
ity Council should be enacted. He
Secretary ByrneS to study
this question and recommend the
form of bill to be presented to Con-
gress. He gave his own views re-
garding the necessity of such law,
and what its terms should be.
He listed, in addition to the pro-
vision that the President should be
required to obtain congressional
assent to the use of armed forces
beyond the basic" or policing"
quota, the following:
/. The American delegate on the
council should be appointed by the
President and confirmed by the
Senate.
Status as Ambassador.
2. The delegate should have the
rank, status and pay of an ambas-
sador.
8. The President should be re-
quired to make annual reports to
Congress in respect to American ac-
tivities in connection with the work
of the United Nations and special
reports when he orders our dele
gate to vote for sanctions, military
or otherwise.
4. The President and his delegate
should be completely free to take
any of the actions contemplated
in the United Nations Charter for
the peaceful settlement of inter-
national disputes.
S. In this statute, or in the SUBJ
sequent quota agreement, we might
well accept, in connection with our
inter-American Allies, and pursuant
to the treaty which will imple-
ment the Act of Chapultepec, the
exclusive responsibility for any
(See CHARTER, Page A-4.)