Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-05-09
Regional Pacts
Now Big Issue
Before Farley
Trusteeship' Is Also
Problem; Two-Thirds
Rule Is Adopted
BY GOULD LINCOLN,
Star Staff Correspondent.

SAN FRANCISCO, May g.
With the celebration of We day
still ringing in their ears, dele
gates to the United Nations Con-
ference today are working with
renewed energy to complete sue
cessfully the draft of a new Or
ganization for world peace.
The commissions and their COM
mittees, as we'll as the plenary ses-
sions of the conference, will work
under a two-thirds voting rule on
all important questions, it has been
decided. Action on purely procedur-
al questions will be resolved by ma
jority vote. This was the unanimous
decision reached by the Executive
and Steering Committees.
The adoption of the two-thirds
vote rule indicates confidence that
important decisions can be made
with a great measure of unanimity
1t also means that it will be difficult
for the adoption of amendments to
the charter which are opposed by
a substantial number of the delega-
tons. Each delegation will have
but single vote, In committee, COM
mission or the conference.
Two Paramount Problems.
Two problems in which the United
States has special interest are rails.
ing their heads more and more
appearing to be the most critica
issues remaining before the con.
ference after the departure of Soviet
Foreign Commissar v. M. Moloto,
today.
The first relates to regional ar.
rangements" and the part they shall
play in the overall picture. This is
where the inter-American security
system set up by the Act of Chapul-
tepec comes in. The Monroe Doc
trine is involved more remotely.
The second major issue concerns
"trusteeships" over the Pacific is
lands which this country has won by
force from the Japanese.
Chief concern of the United States
delegation turns on a trusteeship
formula which will allow this coun-
try to arrange with other powers fol-
effective control of military ano
naval bases wherever the War and
Navy Departments think them
necessary.
There is strong demand from
many Latin American countries
that the er-American security
system be given greater independ-
ence of operation than provided in
the Dumbarton Oaks formula. There
is conflict of opinion in the United
States delegation.
Gromyko Heads Delegation.
Mr.. Molotov, whose two-week
stay here has been marked by several
stormy sessions over Poland, White
Russia, the Ukraine and Argentina
leaves the conference in an atmos-
phere of big-power harmony that
few would have been willing to
forecast few days ago. The Soviet
Ambassador to Washington, Andre
Gromyko, takes over Craftsmanship
Of the Russian delegation.
The presence of the Soviet foreign
minister for the first two weeks is
credited with having speeded the
conference through the first phase
Of big-power agreement. A brie1
session of the Big Five last night
marked his last official participa-
ton.
The commissar's final public &C.
ton here was a We day radio
speech in which he said the United
Nations must consolidate their VIC
tory" over Germany "for the sake
of the welfare of nations and OF
the cultural development of man.
kind"
Although there is a division in
the American delegation on the
regional arrangements question
as it concerns this hemisphere, the
delegation so far is standing pat
officially on the language of the
Dumbarton Oaks formula, which
provides:
'"The Security Council should
where appropriate, utilize such ar
rangements (regionaD or agencies
for enforcement action under Its
1see SECURITY, Page A-18J