The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-04
SMALLER NATIONS
ASSAH BIG FOUR
TACTICS IN PARIS
OF VOTING
KEY TO ARGUMENT
Major Powers Win In FL
fort To Rotate Vital
Craftsmanship Post
BY N ~HEINZERLING

n Aug. -n-I aul ieA
Spaak of Belgium assailed the Big
Four today for ignoring the small
err nations in preparing Europe's
peace and for asking the smaller
powers for recommendations only
after severely handicapping them.
The outburst from the President
of the United Nations General AS
sembly highlighted the Gays pro-
ceedings in the peace conference.
In another phase of the battle be-
tween the big and small powers,
the Big Four won out by a vote of
IL to 8 when the all-poWerful rules
committee approved a decision to
rotate the conference chairman
ship.
Meanwhile, Greece demanded
slices of Bulgarian and Albanian
territory and served notice on the
peace conference that she expects
PREPARATIONS for the material
damage inflicted upon the coun-
try by Italy and other invaders.
Spaak, in a bitter attack on the
big powers, said:
THE great powers meet together
among themselves. They prepare
treaties without consulting us; they
attempt to impose upon us rules
of voting which, in practice, pre-
vent us from securing acceptance
for our points of view; they place
us before the painful dilemma of
accepting sometimes against our
own judgment - what they have
drawn up or else destroying an
agreement that has been achieved
only with difficulty, and then, fin
ally, having thus handicapped us.
they ask us to make them a few
recommendation
The Belgian, however, hailed as
'the most important" declaration
Of the conference U. S. Secretary
of State James F. Byrnes' promise
ito sustain those recommendations
made by a two-thirds majority"
IF the other big powers, in adj
dition to their promises of free and
complete discussion, are willing to
accept a similar engagement, it
seems to me the atmosphere would
suddenly clear and that our work
here would get under way in happy
circumstances" Spaak said.
The big powers must not be
suspicious of us. We are not here
seeking TO impose measures or
opinions but to find the best of
mula for a just and stable peace"
The peace of the world, he de-
clared, depended on "a good under
standing between the great powers
and it is the duty of all to contri-
butte toward this uade cstanding."
The Russians have insisted upon
the tWo-thirds rule. Three days ago
Byrnes said he would support IT.
DR.. Herbert V. Evatt, Australian
Minister of External Affairs and
champion of the small nations, be-
came the spearhead of opposition.
%favoring a simple majority.
The Greek demands were present
ed by Constantine Tsaldaris, prime
minister and chief of the Greek
delegation. They came less than
"a hours after Ethiouia asked the
2l-nation peace-drafting body to
award her Italy's East African
colonies of Eritrea and Somaliland.
Tsaldaris also called upon the
conference to ratify the decision
of the four-power foreign ministers
council restoring the formerly
Italian-oWned Dodecanese islands
to Greece.
Territorial Claims
The new territorial claims
against Killers former southeast
European empire highlighted to-
days activities which included the
days activities which included
these developments:
/. A British spokesman, declaring
that a united front was expected
by the Big -Four on all matters
of agreement in the five treaty
drafts, expressed the opinion there
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