Evening star., 1946-10-20
American Delegate
Urges End 10 Wild
Charges in U. N.
ey the Associated Press

I NEW YORK, Oct. 19.-In a new
bid for cooperation among the
major powers in the United Nations
Security Council, Herschel V. john
son, United States delegate today
called for an end of wild and un-
substantiated charges, harsh accu-
sations and counter charges within
the Council"
Speaking before the Foreign Pol
Icy Association as delegates from
81 nations gathered for Wednes-
days opening of the United Nations
General Assembly, Mr.. johnson
criticized what he called misuse
of the Council for propaganda pur-
poses" and too frequent use OF the
veto.
He declared that people through
out the world react with deep mis-
givings" to the way the Security
Council has operated so far, and
added:
"An of us, I think, feel the need
Of substituting a spirit of co-opera-
ton for one of recrimination. We
can, if we will, change the climate
of international intercourse by try
ing harder to win the peace than
TO win a point in debate"
Big Powers Responsibility.
Mr.. johnson declared that the big
powers had special responsibilities
as we'll as special powers and warned
that the great hope of the charter
becomes dim" if the powers ever use
their position Ito compromise the
principles of the charter itself for
their own advantage at the expense
of others"
eve feel that the obligation under
the charter is for each of the per-
manent members to seek ways OF
concurring and thus meeting the
ISSUE" he said. This requires a
spirit of accommodation and the rec
ognition of the ultimate goal Of peace
and security with justice"
John Foster Dulles, alternate
United States delegate to the Gen
eral Assembly, declared in a speech
at the same meeting that the United
States must continue its bipartisan
foreign policy and must make it clear
to the world that Americans today
stand where their forebears stood.
believing that men are endowed by
their creator with certain inalienable
rights. and seeking the recognition
of those rights everywhere"
Use of Peaceful Influence.
Mr.. Dulles, a leading Republican
authority on foreign affairs, declared
that United States foreign policy
should be based on this moral prin-
ciple and that the United States
should peacefully use our influence
everywhere in support of any who
seek a society predicated on what
the United Nations charter calls the |
dignity and worth of the human
person"
Asserting that "ruling groups" in
some countries map out some eco
nomic or social pattern as ideal and
then try to coerce all individuals to
conform to that pattern" he said
that is the opposite of what the
United States, in the past, has stood
for in the world
Advocacy of human liberty does
not mean that we shall use force,
coercion, threat Or intimidation in
order to make our wishes prevail"
he added. 1--WE reject such methods
of intolerance and call on others to
reject them as Incompatible with
peace"
Delegations Comforting.
Mr.. Dulles said, however, that the
United States could pursue this pol
icy without being 'unfriendly toward
those whose basic beliefs differ from
ours"
Mr.. johnson also expressed the
belief that world harmony could be
maintained despite basic differences
in views.
Meanwhile, advance contingents
of the General Assembly delegates
held preliminary conferences with
their staffs to map plans, while
other delegates sped to New York
by sea and air.
One of the largest groups will ar
rive early Monday when the Queen
Elizabeth docks with IS delegations,
including the Russian, Belgian, Bo-
ivian, Chinese, Czechoslovakia, Do
minican Republic, Norwegian, Le-
banese, Syrian, Polish and Turkish.
This group will include Soviet
Foreign Minister v. M. Molotov, his
deputy, Andrei Y. Vishinsky; Presl-
dent Paul Henri-Spaak of the Gen
eral Assembly, Philip j. Noel-Baker,
British minister of state, and Jan