The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-05-16
i. S. Formula
For Regional
Peace Is Set
PROPOSAL STUDIED
Two Specific Amendments
To Dumbarton Oaks
Plan Are Made

mUNTne United States formula
t %'' settling the dispute over reg
i ional organizations mas been draft
l ~ and acceptance by the big
t five and the 20 Latin American
I,s is expected within a few
ho,rs it was learned tonight.
Tho formula for fitting regional
,vstems such as the inter-Ameri-
o ~ organization into the world
organization involves two specific
smendments to the Dumbarton
Oaks proposals. They are:
! Under the section on peaceful
settlement of disputes there would
no added a section acknowledging
nizing the authority of regional
systems at that stage.
2. Under the section on enforce
ment action against threats to the
neace or aggression, there would
be added a section acknowledging
the inherent right of Individual or
collective self defense in event
toe security council fails to settle
the dispute or to act in the dis
pute.
The controversial section under
regional arrangements which pro-
vides that enforcement action by
a regional organization requires
approval of the security council
would be retained.
The Latin American insistence
of the last few days that the in
ter.American system, as exe:n-
plfied in the act of Chapultepec,
be specifically mentioned in the
new world charter was rejected.
Representatives of the big five
met in Secretary of State Edward
R. Stettinius, Jr.'s., apartment
late today to receive the United
States formula which has been the
major problem Of this conference
for more than a week. All of the
Latin American countries will meet
later tonight and be advised of the
formula by Mexican Foreign Min
lister Ezequiel Padilla:.
Padilla and eight other Latin
American ministers met with Stet-
tinius this afternoon. Padilla pre-
dicted then that the regional dis
pute was well on its way toward
solution.
The climax to the dispute came
this noon when Stettinius told a
press conference the United States
had decided that the proposed
world security organization must
be paramount to any regional sys-
tenn.
He coupled this statement with
an assertion of confidence that a
compromise can be drafted even
tually which will bring the inter-
American system within the frame
work Of the world organization
in manner satisfactory to Latin
American countries which have
been demanding its complete in
dependence.
It was the first definitive state
ment Of the United States position
on the most ticklish problem to
come before the United Nations
conference which is seeking to
GRAFT a charter for the proposed
world security organization.
His statement, made before a
crowded press conference, came
In the midst of new efforts to
solve the regional arrangements
problem. The United States dele
CATION conferred all morning on it.
and Stettinius met with delegation
chiefs of nine Latin American
countries after his pressconfer-
ence
The Secretary told the report
ers ii was impossible for him to
say now what the final solution Of
me regional arrangements matter
would be.
l can tell you, however, beyond
any doubt-and I want this to be
made crystal clearAthat the u
D. delegation is in San Francisco
70 write charter for world or
ganlzation," he said, pounding nj:
u . as ne emphasized the wore
world
And as precious as our Inter
Ahelcan system is" he continued
ana as much as it has mean
" US from traditional standpoint
l'efe IS nothing in our minds tina
W. expect to do that will interfere
WIN me success and prestige o
Vile world organization.