The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-23


 of making the proposed United Na- tions Organization going con- cern:
 l. Rewriting the proposals agreed to by representatives of the United States, Great Britain. Soviet Rus sia and China at the Dumbarton Oaks conferences last summer, put ting. them into the form of perm anent Charter which will be ap- proved at San Francisco.
 2. Submission of the San Fran cisco Charter to the separate United Nations. There will be representa- tives of 46 nations at San Francisco AT if the new Polish government is ready in time. and 48 if Argentina gets there before the show is over.
 The San Francisco conference may set up it's own rule on how many nations must accept the Charter before it shall become ef- fective. Each government will be left to its own devices in deciding whe- ther to ratisfy the Charter and join the Organization, or reject and stay out.
 UP TO PRESIDENT
 AND SENATE
 In the United States the Charter will have to be submitted by the President to the Senate and accept ed by the Senate before this country can join. If enough governments ratify within six months to put the Organization in force before the end of 1945, that will be fast work.
 3. When enough governments have ratified the Charter to set up the United Nations Organization, then the various governments will have to name their delegates to the Assembly. The number of repre- sentatives for each country will be specified in the Charter if the Dum- barton Oaks proposal is followed. In the United States these representa- tives will probably be appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate. They will be men of am- bassadorial rank.
 The place of meeting for the first sessions of the Assembly of the United Nations Organization may be designated at San Francisco or may be decided later. There are argu- ments both for and against holding the first sessions in Geneva, Switz- erland, seat of the old League of Nations, Switzerland is neutral, not one of the United Nations. Con- vening in the United States is not unlikely. Time of the first meet ing of the Assembly will of course depend on when a sufficient num- Der of nations shall have ratified.
 But with time and place specified and a quorum of nations having named their representatives, the United Nations Organization will be ready to set up housekeeping.
 ELECTION OF OFFICERS
 If the Charter adopted at San Francisco follows the general out line of the proposals made at Dum- barton Oaks. the first business of the Organization will include the election of a President, Secretary General, the adoption of the rules of procedure for the Assembly, the making of budget and apportion- ing of expenses among the mem Der nations.
 3vt might come the election of the six nations whose representa- .ives will sit on the Security Coun- Gil with the representatives of the Big Five-United States, Great Britain, Soviet Russia, China and France.
 Then might come the election of the 18 nations whose representatives will sit on the Economic and Social Council.
 All these are functions reserved to the Assembly by the Dumbarton Oaks proposals. If these things are accomplished within a year, the world can well consider itself lucky.
 With these formalities out of the way, the United Nations Organiza- tions would be ready to begin it's business of maintaining peace and security suppressing acts of ag- gression settling international disputes .. developing friendly re- lations among nations achiev- ing international cooperation.