Detroit evening times., 1945-07-18

Zuela, ana all the Arab League nations except
Iraq, Lebanon and Syria, did not vote.
Ecuador, Haiti and Saudi Arabia were
absent.
The vote was strictly rigged.
The Latin-Americans and the Arab League
could have mustered at least 20 votes and
wrecked the conference. But, as Alberto
Lleras Camargo, chairman of the Colombian
delegation, declared:
THE great majority of the countries
represented In this conference, however. do
share the fears of Colombia and OF Cuba, and
q considerable number of abstentions Was
registered. 1t Is apparent ahat those Austen
tiOns have the same meaning as our negative
vote, and that II the veto power has been
approved. Il was because the states here
presented do not want and cannot deny to the
five great powers, upon whose shoulders rests
the heaviest weight of the maintenance of
peace and security In the future, the instru-
ment which they consider essential for the
adequate fulfillment Of their tasks. without
the negative vote of Colombia and Cuba the
veto power would have appeared as unanl-
mously adopted, and the abstentions would
have been interpreted In different light"
THUS THE CONFERENCE WAS PEI. PEsFR.
MTTrED TO SAVE ITS FACE AND TO GET
A DOCUMENT THAT LOOKED LIKE
SOMETHING.
THE delegates signed the final document
i at San Francisco with great soemnity
and made flowery speeches, but they all had
their tongues IN their cheeks.
For unless the treaty pledge be carried
out, the United Nations Charter will not come
into being plan for world organization.
The charter requires that it can come into
existence as working body only If it is
signed by the United States, Russia, the
United Kingdom France. China and "a ma
Jority of other signatory states
This requires that % out of the remaining
As states give their approval.
If the United States does not carry out !ts
pledge, unless the present scene changes, %
states cannot be found to give approval.
If the United States does carry out it's
pledge, there is a strong chance that Russia
will not approve.
THE Russians are attempting TO break up
Il the Latin American solidarity and that is
the reason for the sudden flare-up in the
reports on the conditions in the Argentine and
also for the attacks on the Franco regime in
Spain.
1T is ALSO FAIRLY CERTAIN THAT
THE FRENCH ATTACK ON SYRIA WAS
INSPIRED TO BREAK UP THE ARAB
LEAGUE.
For the same reason il Is being repre-
sented that the present war was waged
against fascism instead of against Germany,
Italy and Japan.
For if the war was against types of gov
ernment instead of against specific govern
ments, it would follow that any state which
was anti-Communist would be classed as
Fascist and therefore be ineligible to join
the United Nations.
The taking over of the conference by the
smaller nations. the emergence OF hemisphere
solidarity as a fact and the drive of the Rus
SLAMS TO prevent whole hemisphere from oe-
coming soidly anti-Communist are not only
the most dramatic but also the most lmpor.
tant phases of the conference.
They have not been disclosed because If
they were. the proceedings before the Senate
would appear as an elaborate exercise in
make-believe. The facts will now be given
Ito Be Continued)