Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-05-10
U. 5. Delegates
Seek 10 Solve
Regional Issue
Variety of Proposals
Will Be Studied by
Subcommittee
SMALL NATIONS plea to give par
ley first big test. Page A-3
BY GOULD LINCOLN,
Star Staff Correspondent.

Star Staff Correspondent.
SAN FRANCISCO, May TO-
The United States delegation to
the United Nations Conference
strove today to draft a proposal
which will solve the regional
agencies" issue that has devel-
oped into one of the most critical
facing the conference.
Chief concern of the American
delegation is to find a formula for
fitting the inter-American security
system into the proposed world or
ganization without splitting the lat
ter into regional blocs.
Such formula, it is pointed out,
must not render futile the inter-
national organization as an overall
agency for peace. At the same time,
it must give recognition to the inter-
American system which has devel-
oped strongly over a period of 125
years.
Several Proposals Offered.
Proposals have been submitted by
several Latin American countries,
Australia and other nations on the
subject of regional agencies.
The question involved is whether
regional agencies shall be bound by
the Dumbarton Oaks agreements
which say definitely that before
regional agencies take punitive or
enforcement action in cases threat
ening peace they must first obtain
counsel of the international organ
iZation.
A subcommittee has been appoint
ed from the Regional Arrangements
Committee of the conference to
study all these proposals. 1t is COM
posed OF representatives from Co
lombia, China, Australia, France,
Chile, Czechoslovakia, Egypt, Rus
STA, Mexico, Norway, the United
Kingdom and the United States.
The subcommittee meets at 1890
am, Pacific war time, today.
Among the proposals already sub.
mitted is one offered by Colombia,
Costa Rica, Peru and Ecuador. It
holds that the inter American group
OF nations is competent to handle
problems in this hemisphere, and
this competency should be recog-
nized in the charter of the interna-
tional organization.
Australia has put forward two
proposals. One Is to give regional
agencies, such as the Americas act
ing together, or Australia, New
Zealand and such other countries
as may form q regional agency In
their part of the world, the author.
ity to act in case the Security Coun.
Gil failed to do SO.
Would Curb Veto.
| The other would prevent q veto
Of regional action by the security
council unless three of the i've
permanent powers on the council
the United States, Britain, Russia,
China and France-should concur in
the veto if a majority of the coun-
Gil approved regional action.
The original Dumbarton Oaks
provision prohibiting regional &C
ton without first obtaining author.
ity of the security council was writ
! VIII 4o%os ca4A11llC1 d2lo 4d11s 1GuSSld
had not entered into her present BIZ
lateral treaties of mutual defense
with France, Poland, Czechoslovakia
and other nations.
| The Mexico City Conference with
its resulting Act of Chapultepec had
not been held. And the Yalta
agreement on the voting formula for
the security council-with its veto
powers-had not been reached.
The Russian treaty situation has
already been taken care Of by an
amendment agreed to by the Big
-Four, which exempts these treaty
agreements from the charter pro-
vision. This matter was taken I'D
flrst, it is explained, because Rus
sian Foreign Commissar v. M. Mo-
lotov came to the conference for a
limited time, and it was desirable to
dispose OF the issue before he left.
The settlement of the Russian
demands, however, has given In
creased impetus to the demands Of
the Latin Americans for another
exemption and also to the demands
; Of other nations.
Slow Action Feared.
The apparent fear among South
American and other advocates of
regionalism is that the world organ
lzation may not give real security,
or it may be too slow to move.
One delegate said: Suppose my
, country is threatened. Russia, being
far away from us, might veto action
in the world security council to pro-
tect us. But we have the pam
, American system already, and it
works"
J; The Australians were said to have
made 1t clear that they dislike the
idea of being left alone in their
part of the world to depend en-
(See LINCOLN, Page A-39