Evening star., 1945-06-14
big 5 Leaders Agree
To Seek Conference
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the Netherlands, New Zealand, Pam
anna, Paraguay and Peru.
Absent-Ecuador, Haiti and Saudi
Arabia.
More Flexibility Urged.
Australian Foreign Minister Her.
bert v. Evatt, and spokesman for
some of the other nations who alb
stained from voting, explained that
while they could not vote against the
Yalta plan, they could not vote for
it. All expressed hope that the Big
Five would start studies toward
making the voting plan more flexible
The formula applying to the H.
member security council says:
/. Each member should have one
vote.
2. Decisions on procedural mat
ters, including discussion of a dis
pute, should be made by an affirma-
tive vote of any seven members.
8. Decisions on "all other mat
ters" should be made by an afiirma-
tive vote of seven members, includ-
ing the concurring votes of all the
Big Five, except party to a dispute
should abstain from voting on meas
ures for its forceful settlement.
Chairman Connally of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee, who
led the fight for the Big Five and its
Interpretation of the voting formula,
said after the battle was ended:
THE vote was in effect vote of
confidence in the sincerity and in
tegrity Of the great powers. I am
confident that the great powers will
not betray the trust that has been
placed in them by using their right
of veto wilfully or maliciously.
Rare Use Of Veto Seen.
"The future will demonstrate, I
think, that such a veto will rarely,
If ever, be used. Given the tre-
mendous pressure Of public opinion,
1t would be serious thing for any
single nation to wilfully block the
peaceful settlement of a dispute"
Senator Connally predicted the
charter will be ratified by the Sen
ate. Referring to reports from
Washington that President Truman
planned to submit the United Ma
tions treaty to the Senate almost
Immediately after it has been
adopted here, he said he would be
ready to take it up with the For
eign Relations Committee, hold
hearings and report 1t to the Senate
for early action.
The Importance Of the regional
arrangements agreement was en-
phasized by Senator Vandenberg,
Republican, OF Michigan and other
speakers. including Mexican Am
bassador Francisco Costello Najera,
at an open commission session last
night.
Eve have found a sound and prac-
tical formula for putting regional
organizations into effective gear
with the global institution which
we here erect in behalf Of the world S
peace and security" Senator Van
denberg said.
I'm my view we have infinitely
strengthened the world organization
by thus enlisting, within its over
all supervision, the dynamic re-
sources Of these regional affinities.
We do not thus subtract from global
unity in behalf of the worlds peace
and security. On the contrary, we
weld these regional king-links into
the global chain.
Right Of Self-defense.
"One of these king-Mnks is par
ticularly dear to the hearts OF 21
republics In this Western Hemi-
sphere. It is a precious inheritance
with so years of benign history
behind it."
He pointed out that the regional
arrangements program recognizes
the inherent right of elf-defense-
singly or collectively-which permits
any sovereign state among u.s." or
any qualified regional group of
states, to ward of attack pending
adequate action by the world or
ganization.
1t also recognizes the continuous
validity of mutual protection pacts,
like that between Russia and France,
to prevent resurgence of Axis
aggression, he said.
I'm other words" Mr.. Vanden-
berg continued, I'VE strengthen our
overall objective by giving 1t (the
organization) every resource at our
command. That overall objective
is that the Axis shall never rise
again."
The Michigan Senator concluded
with a prediction that the manner
in which the committee had been
able to resolve It's differences, when
1t had been considered to have
reached a desperate crisis" over
regional arrangements, was "a sign,
token, an omen that so great
United Nations, bound together by
the blood Of their soldier and sailor
sons, will md the way, regardless
Of obstacles, to maintain peace
with justice in this weary world"
Secretariat Discussed.
A technical committee last night
tackled the provision for a secre-
tariat of the new organization. A
Russian proposal calling for five
deputy acknowledgement, in ad-
dition to q secretary-general, was
voted down, and also a Big Four
proposal which would have provided
for four deputies. The committee
then adopted the Dumbarton Oaks
language which provides merely for
secretary-general with an appro-
pirate staff.
Many of the nations saw in the
proposal to have four or five deputy
acknowledgement an effort to ex-
tend the influence of the Big Five
into the secretariat.
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