Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-01-22
United Nations Issue
On Red Protests Held
Not Insurmountab|e
BY GOULD LINCOLN,
Star Staff Correspondent


LONDON, Jan. 22-Demands by
Russia and the Ukraine that the
United Nations Security Council
take up the situations in Greece and
Indonesia, caused by the presence
OF British troops in those countries.
set the UNO back on its heels TODAY
The feeling of the UNO delegates,
however, was that the Russian tao
tics had not created an insurmount-
able crisis, and that the situation
Is similar to those which arose every
week during the San Francisco Con-
terence when the UNO Charter was
being written.
There was no disposition to believe
mat the UNO should dodge the issue,
although regret was expressed that
SUCH issues as the Iranian. Grecian
ana Indonesian should have been
preclpitated, even before the organ
lzatlon OF UNO had been completed.
Sees UNO Forced to Meet Issue,
Senator Vandenberg, one of the
american delegates, while declaring
MS hrm conviction that the UNO
Will have to meet these issues if thev
are persisted in, said it is unfortu-
nate and unfair that UNO should be
confronted with them before it has
developed the machinery on which
IL intends to rely in dealing with
such problems.
The Assembly is only 10 days old,
the Security Council only 4 davs
Old" he said. 1--WE don't yet have
secretariat. We do not have a
court. We do not have contracts for
armed forces. We have no operating
machinery whatever.
The situation created is eolliya-
lent to one Gen. Eisenhower would
nave confronted if he had been
asked to invade France 20 minutes
after we declared war. Yet the i'm
mlnence of the problems thus sub
mltted once more demonstrates the
necessity for UNO and the need to
bring it into effective operation with
the least possible delay"
There is no reason whatever that
UNO should run away from facing
any issue to the best of it's ability
and with whatever facilities it has
available" the Michigan Senator
said.
1t was important. he said. that
We should guard against our own
lmpatlence" and added that the
UNO would be developed strongly
over a period of time, much as was
the American Government which
was weak and attacked by The press
in its beginning.
There are, he said, bound to be
dlsappointments and incidental fail
ures. There will be no true test, he
continued, until the institution as q
whole has had an opportunity ia
junction in respect to all of its
and spiritual factors.
"Ponderous Joke"
British reaction to the Russian
move was varied. One Britisher
commented: It's a ponderous Joke"
1t was pointed out that while the
1ranian demand made on the
Security Council came from the
delegation representing the govern
ment of that country, the Greek
and Dutch delegations at the As
sembly have made no requests to the
Security Council regarding the
presence of British troops in Greece
and Indonesia. .....
That Russia and the Ukraine
should go out of their way to raise
issues with regard to territories in
which they are not involved and in
which the governments have made
no move was regarded as significant.
The Iranians, it was pointed out
spoke for themselves, whereas the
Russians have undertaken to speak
for the Greeks.
Iranian Complications.
The fall of the Iranian cabinet has
complicated the situation. The dele
CATION here undoubtedly will await
instructions from the new govern
ment. If the government is friendly
to Russia instructions may be given
to drop the issue before the Security
Council. In that event, the demands
of the Russians and Ukrainians also
may be quietly shelved.
Now that these questions have
been raised, the British government
may be glad to have at least the ad-
vice of UNO An the Greek and In
donesian situations.
Further it is pointed out that it
would require the votes of seven
members of the Security Council to
proceed with the inquiries suggested
by Russia and the Ukraine, and it is
not known whether the votes would
be forthcoming.