Evening star., 1945-04-26
Soviet Will Ask
For Three Votes
AT Farley Today
StoIin's Reply on
Poland Reported
Given Molotov
(Other Conference Stories on
Page A.
BY JOHN M. HIGHTOWER,
Associated Press STAFF Wri.er

BY JOHN M. HIGHTOWER,
Associated Press STAFF Writer
SAN FRANCISCO. April 26.-
Russia's bid for three Soviet votes
in a world assembly based on
sovereign equality" among ma
tions goes before the first busi-
ness session today at the United
Nations Conference.
Word of this plan ended hopes of
some United States delegates that
Russia might not raise the trouble
some three-vote issue.
Soviet Foreign Commissar v. M.
Molotov notified the chief delegates
of the As other United Nations here,
after yesterdays first meeting, that
the proposal would be presented to
the organization session of the Steer
ing Committee, beginning at 10:30
a m, Pacific war time Q:30 pm,
EWT).
The specific proposal is that the
Ukrainian and White Russian Soviet
should get conference
seats and become thereby charter
members Of the assembly of the pro-
posed world organization.
Two Other Developments.
Two other top developments ush-
cred the conference into its second
day after delegates heard President
Truman declare that the worlds fu-
ture is a choice between chaos and
the organized enforcement of peace.
They were:
l. 1t was reported that Mr.. Molo-
tov had received a reply from Pre-
mier Stain to his report on talks
with Secretary Of State Stettinius
and British Foreign Secretary An.
thony Eden on the Big Three dead
lock over Poland. The reply appar-
emily had not been communicated to
either Mr.. Stettinius or Mr.. Eden.
2. The sponsoring powers agreed
on a conference Executive Commit
tee of delegates of II nations and
there was speculation that these II
may form the membership of the
proposed organization's all-powerful
Security Council. The II are the
councils five permanent members:
United States, Britain, Russia, China
and France-and six smaller ma
tions-Iran, Belgium, Yugoslavia.
Canada, Brazil and Mexico.
Schedule Crowded.
Coupled with these developments,
the delegations of the wars 46 VIC
torious nations faced a crowded
schedule, beginning, for the Ameri-
cans, with $50 am. Pacific war
time) delegation caucus and run
ming through another full-dress
meeting in the War Memorial Opera
House at $3.50 pm. Pacific war
time).
This last session of the day will
receive the report of the Steering
Committee on organization of the
conference. Mr.. Stettinius is slated
for permanent president. The report
also may cover the Soviet three vote
issue and creation of the Executive
Committee.
The program then calls for
speeches by Foreign Minister T. v.
Soong of China, Mr.. Molotov and
Mr.. Eden. Afterward, at subsequent
sessions, the next of which may be
tomorrow, the chief delegates of
other nations will speak in the
alphabetical order of their coun-
tries.
Mr.. Stettinius started the oratory
for the delegates of the four spon-
soring powers-the United States,
China, Russia and Britain-at yes
terday's gala opening in the opera
house, after an address by President
Truman and speeches of welcome by
Gov. Earl Warren of California and
Mayor Roger D. Lapham of San
Francisco.
Stettinius Demands Success.
Mr.. Stettinius told the delegates,
mo one of the large nations, no one
of the small nations, can afford
anything less than success in this
endeavor. Each of them knows too
we'll what the consequences of fail
ufe would be-
English was tagged for the official
conference language-once the
Steering Committee approved-but
provision was also made for the use
of several other tongues, including
Russian, Spanish. French and Chi
nese.
1t was arranged, too. that the
Dumbarton Oaks plan, worked out
in Washington last fall and later
filled in by the Roosevelt-C Churchill
Stain conference at Yalta in Feb
ruary, should be made the agenda
for the conference. Thus the dele
gates started work on a ready-made
structure of world organization.
From this plan arises the issue
over Russia's three assembly votes.
The Dumbarton Oaks draft calls for
an assembly of all "peace-loving
nations" on a basis of sovereign
equality" At Yalta, Premier Stain
told the late President Roosevelt
that he had in mind asking assem-
bly, seats for the Ukrainian and
White Russian Soviets. He said they
were autonomous in their foreign
affairs, under the revised Russian
constitution, and that they deserved
ASNOSAAOAOA4 bOS0uoC O4lCy AIdu DOIu
the brunt Of the war on Russian
soil
Mr.. Churchill and Mr.. Roosevelt
agreed to support such a request,
but the President said he would
reserve the right to ask for three
United States votes. Premier Stain
and Mr.. Churchill in turn agreed.
bet v1x f,a
nounced, through Mr.. Stettinius,
that the United States would not ask
for three votes, In any case, and this
raised the hopes of many American
officials and delegates that Russia
would follow suit.
The three-vote arrangement
would not affect Russia's position
in the proposed security council
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