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VOTING STAND
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seats if the claim actually is made
to the San Francisco meeting.
There was no doubt, however,
that the whole idea of multiple vot-
ing, which has been involved in
terrific controversy since til =
Roosevelt Stain deal was an
nounced last week, had been dealt
a heavy blow by the announs-
ment.
| Moreover, there still was an
open question whether the Amer
lean delegation, of which Senator
Vandenberg (R-Mich) is a men,
Der, would agree to support Mr..
Roosevelt's promise to Stain. Stet-
tinius declined to discuss the del
egation's attitude by Vandenberg
has made known his opposition to
multiple voting on the ground that
it would impair the sovereign
equality of nations.'
Stattinius knocked down ideas
that the San Francisco Confer
ence, opening April Is, might be
postponed. He said the speed of
the war makes it increasingly
necessary that the plans for Gre
ating a world organization "be
carried on promptly" He added
that the United States had not re-
ceived any indication that any
government believes that the con-
ference should be postponed"
He also ruled out talk of pos
sible Big Five Conference prelim-
mary to the April Is meeting for
an effort to reconcile the differ
ences which have grown up among
the Allied powers since Yalta. He
said there had been no talk of
such a meeting on the part of any
of the governments.
The most direct effort to resolve
some of the differences already is
being made by Roosevelt, Church
ill and Stain in personal COM
munications among themselves
Questioned on this point, Stettinl-
us said that the President is in
very close touch with the other
two leaders all the time
Stettirius did not rule out the
possibility of a meeting with rep
resentatives of the Big Five here
on creation Of system of trustee
ships which would be submitted to
the San Francisco Conference.
Stettinius said the only objective
of this preliminary gathering
would be the machinery to con-
troll World War I mandates, enc.
my territory seized in this war
and any other territories volun.
tarily put under trusteeship.
He eliminated the probability o!
a San Francisco row over colonial
possessions by saying that specif.
ic territories will not be discuss
ed.
Late this afternoon. Stettinius
conferred with Russian Ambassa-
dor Gromyko, British Ambassador
Halifax and Chinese Ambassador
Wei on what they all called or.
ganizat ional and procedural4 mat.
tiers for the Sn Francisco Con-
ference. =
The gathering symbolized a new
unity among the leading Allied
nations in that it brought together
for the first time in such par
LEY the Russian and Chinese en-.
voys.
In view of Russia's refusal tc
sit down with the Chinese at Dunn.
barton Oaks, this conference to.
day indicated less Soviet concern
than in the past about remaining
aloof from the Japanese war.
Halifax called StettI1ius' state
ment on the American decision not
to ask for additional votes "a very
comprehensive statement an & a
helpful one" He said that the
British Commonwealth resented
suggestions that Britain actually
would command six votes in a
world assembly, declaring that the
dominions are as independent Of
the United Kingdom as itsis of
them.
Stettinius came into the news
conference with 1000 word
statement ready-made to answer
questions submitted to him by re-
porters last Friday.
These were based on White
House announcement of the day
before, which left no doubt that
Russia would go to the San Fran
cisco meeting with request for
recognition of claims for Ukrain-
ian and White Russian member
ship. It said that the Russians at
Yalta-meaning Stalin-asked the
Americans and British - mean
ing Roosevelt and Churchill to
support the proposal.
'They agreed to do so,'' the
White House statement said, ''but
the American representatives
stated that, if the United Nations
organization agreed to let the So
Wet Republics have three votes,
the United States would ask for
three votes also"
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