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law.
An amendment to Chapter 9 deal
ing with Arrangements for Interna-
tional Economic and Social Cooper
alton, reading,
The Economic and Social Council
should set up commissions in the
fields of economic activity, prOmOt-
ion of human rights and any other
field within the competence of the
Council
The Social and Economic Council
will be the administrative agency
of the Security Council and Of the
Assembly.
C~OnsuItants Contend for Specific
Definition Of Safeguards at San
Francisco Conference
A limiting clause. considered dam
gerous and unfortunate, and which
NAACP consultants are working as
siduously to eliminate or drastically
modify reads: Nothing contained in
this charter shall authorize the Or
ganization to intervene in matters
which are essentially within the do
nestle Jurisdiction Of the State con
cerned or which requires the men,
bers to submit such matters to set
Element under this Charter"
The United States delegation has
proposed an amendment to Chapter
V dealing with the functions and
powers of the General Assembly
which some contend will give ethe
International Organization the
right to inquire into domestic"
matters despite the amendment
quoted above dealing with principI-
es prohibiting intervention in mat
tiers (which are essentially within
the domestic jurisdiction of the State
concerned" The United States pro-
visions of paragraph 1 of this Sec
ton the General Assembly should
be empowered to recommend meas
ures for the peaceful adjustment of
any situation, regardless of origin,
which it deems likely to impair the
5Cltl oA VI LlSAIoAE ICldllOIlC
among nations, including situat-
ions resulting from a violation Of
the Purposes and Principles set for
tn in this Charter" But it is the
contention of the NAACP~ consult
ants that this does not sufficiently
ganization is set up to intervene in
what some countries might claim
are domestic matters. but which
do endanger peace.
The NAACP consultants have
pointed out vigorously that under
such a provision. England might,
for example, say that conditions in
India or Nigeria or the British
West Indies. are exclusively domes-
tic matters, or the. United States
might say hat the perpetuation of
lynching or segregation, which
cause colored peoples of the world
today to distrust the United Nations
are exclusively domestic matters.
To take it out of the realm of race,
another Hitler might arise using
anti-Semitism or some other form
of bigotry n elevate himself to
power and thus endanger peace by
bringing about another war by
claiming that this was purely n do
nestle matter NAACJ consult
ants are urging that this section
either be eliminated altogether or
very greatly modified by a specific
but unequivocal definition of what
is termed domestic and what is
termed a situation affecting world
peace.
One of the high points of the
meeting of consultants was on May
18th when Mrs Bethune made a
most moving appeal that the future
Of not only American Negroes but
all oppressed peoples must be one Of
the paramount concerns of the In
ternational Organization.