The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-07

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 First week of the conference, as you may have noted with some boredom, was given over to oratory in which heads of the 46 nations delegations got keynote speeches off their chests. All were no doubt im- portant, but pretty middling dull by the time they go through second or third translation.
 There was applause from time to time, as some national spell-binder restated platitude, but no ovations and no one got lifted out of his plush seat in wild acclaim over the inspiring thoughts or beautiful phrases of any speaker.
 Oratory at this clam bake is pret- ty dead, which is probably just as well, for it's the substance and not the fourisheS that will be most en- during. And now the more than l. 300 Joe Doakes co-authors have to SooA Ph oAdS4AlSs AulllOd1 UOll OdhS proposals have to be completely re- written.
 Deadline for representatives of the 46 nations to submit their ideas for amending the Dumbarton docu- ment is Friday. In other words, the noble sentiments expressed by the orators will have to be reduced to writing and submitted to the gen. eral secretary of the conference, young MT. Alger Hiss. The complete file of suggested changes may fill more than 1000 pages.
 All these proposed amendments won't be considered by the full con- ference. There will be lot of dupli- cation. First job of the Secretary General will be to take the several hundred proposed amendments and classify them according to four main divisions of subject matter.
 First, those dealing with the gen. eral provisions of the charter - preamble, and purposes, member ship and general secretariat. Second those dealing with the general as- sembly - its structure and it's poli- tical, economic and trusteeship functions. Third, those dealing with the economic council - its structure and it's functions in making peace full settlements, enforcing decisions and handling regional security ar- engagements. Fourth, those dealing with the judicial organization - the world court and international law.
 The full San Francisco Confer ence has been split up into four commissions, each of which will be responsible for the drafting of one of four main parts of the charter, as outlined above. All the proposed amendments will therefore be re- ferred by the Secretary General to the appropriate commission. The commissions will meet in open ses- sion.
 But the four commissions, in turn are divided into 12 technical com- mittees, two for the first and fourth commissions, four for the second and third commission. Each of the four commissions will therefore take all the proposed amendments re- ferred to it by the Secretary Gen. eral and sub-divide them by tech- nical committee. Every nation gets to name its own members on any commission or committee.
 Actual work of drafting the Uni ted Nations Charter, section by sec- tion, will be done in secret meet ings of the 12 technical committees As each committee polishes off its section - combining, incorporating or throwing out the proposed amendments referred to it, anc drafting them on the matching Dumbarton Oaks suggestions - that section will be reported back to the commission. Each of the commissions may approve the drafts of its technical committees or senc them back for rewriting.
 When each of the four commis. sions has completed the drafting o1 its part of the charter, that part will be reported out to the full con. ference, which will meet in open plenary session to consider it. An. section, subsection, article, sen. tence, clause, phrase, word O punctuation mark may be tough over and changed in plenary ses. sion.
 But when the conference finally agrees on draft of the charter that will be it and the delegate! can go back where they came iron to try it out on the home folks.