Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-06-26
Charter Signing,
Truman Speech
10 End Farley
Bright Outlook Seer
For Pact to Go in
Effect This Year
(TeIt OF United Nations Charter
on Page All
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By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER,
Associated Press Stan Writer.

DAN cuANC1OCO, June 3D.
With great issues of war and
peace hanging on their pen
STROKES delegates of so coun-
tries went to flag-draped con-
ference auditorium today to
sign the new United Nations
Charter, and then hear Presi-
dent Truman make his first
major address on American
foreign policy.
A triumphant meeting of the
United Nations Conference-its last
working session-last night ap-
proved the final version of the
peace organization charter. The
signatures 60 on today; next comes
the slower process of ratification.
Rapping last nights session to
its close, the Earl of Halifax, Brit
aims delegation chief, who pre-
sided, solemnly told the conference:
Il think we all agree we have taken
part in historic moment in world
history"
All controversy had been cleared
away days before this final action,
and the vote of approval was a
unanimous standing vote.
Signing Starts at Noon.
The signing ceremony was called
to start around noon Eastern war
time) today with DR.. v. K. Yelling
ton Koo of China heading a process
sion of 1873 delegates into the audi
forum OF San Francisco's Veterans
Memorial Building.
President Truman is scheduled to
make the closing address of the con-
ference at about 4:45 pm. 1:45 pm.
Washington time. His speech, ap-
proximately 80 minutes long, will
follow brief talks by delegation
chiefs of the Big Five and repre-
sentatives of five smaller nations,
beginning at $3.50 pm. $3.50 pm.
Washington time).
Ofdcials estimated that the sign
ing would require about eight hours.
A last-minute change in plans
pushed Argentina out of alphabet
cal first place and put the confer
ence sponsoring powers and France
at the head of the order of signing.
The one exception was that the
United States as host country and
In order to simplify witnessing of
the ceremony by President Truman
preferred to appear in 50th place.
china ESr~k - n-L~.
Thus the order is China, Russia,
Britain, France, Argentina and so
on in alphabetical arrangement.
These ceremonies complete two
months and day of intense, debate
studded conference work. They
make this symbolically one of the
great days for which the Allied world
has fought and planned since the
Second World War started-the day
on which the victorious governments
subscribe to plan for preventing a
third world war.
How well the plan will work, dele
gates generally agreed, is a question
for the future alone, and depends
on how much peoples and govern
ments determine to make it work.
To bring the projected world or
ganlzation into existence, the
charter adopted here must be rati-
fed by all the Big Five powers-the
United States, Russia, Britain,
France and China-plus a ma jority
OF all the others, % nations in all.
In the United States this is a
problem for the Senate, and signs
are mounting daily that the Senate
Will approve. Senator Vandenberg,
Republican, of Michigan, member
OF the American delegation here,
announced yesterday he would sign
the charter and make every effort
to secure its ratification with rea-
sonable speed"
Charter Basis Called Sound.
In Washington an Associated
Press poll showed SO Senate votes
already announced for ratification.
Ratification requires a two-thirds
majority of those voting.
Senator Vandenberg expressed a
view often. heard here when he
said that the charter has its in
flrmities but offers a sound basis
for seeking organized peace" He
described it as a great adventure
to stop World War III before it
starts"
If given quick go-ahead by the
United States Senate, a sufficient
number of the other United Ma
tons may ratify the charter in
time to bring it in effect before
the end of 1945.
This was the prospect shown in
a poll conducted here by the Asso-
ciated Press. Out of the first rs
nations to reply to a QUESTIONABLE
20 predicted ratification by their
home governments before the end
Of the year. None raised any bar
to ratification. Six declined to fix
a probable date.
The feeling expressed by dele
gates here was that a real land
slide of favorable votes by small
nations would follow American
ratification.
The charter provides five principal
pieces of machinery:
l. General assembly-composed of
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