Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-02-03
UN0 Site Picked
0nConnecticut's
wYorkBorder
Manhattan Is Chosen
By Committee as
Interim Capitol
By the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, Feb. IA 40-tO-
50-Square- mile tract of land on
the New York Connecticut Dor
der was recommended today as
first choice for the site of an
international city in which the
United Nations would establish
headquarters.
New York City was suggested as
interim headquarters until the in
ternational capital was constructed.
The recommendation were made
IN 35-page report by UNO site
committee to the United Nations
General Assembly in London.
DR.. Slogan Gavrilovic, commit
tee chairman, said at a news con-
ference at the Waldorf Astoria that
the report also recommended Hyde
Park, N. Y, and the Blue Hills and
North Shore areas near Boston as
possible sites for the permanent
headquarters of the United Nations.
He said Boston and Atlantic City
had been recommended as alter
mates for the interim headquarters.
Assembly to Hear Report.
In London, where the site selec-
ton was made known simultane-
ously with the announcement here,
the General Assembly planned to
near the recommendations formally
Tuesday and expected final action
by the 51-nation body within a
week.
When the Site Committee began
inspecting the territory within 80
miles of New York City four weeks
ago, DR.. Garvrilovic said, I'VE have
In mind city built as Washington
was built more than 100 years ago
only on not such a big scale"
Such city would displace at first
about $500 persons now living in
parts of two Connecticut and four
New York towns and cause the dis
mantling of some of the palatial
estates which dot the wooded, roll
Ing country of the site. 1t includes
the beautiful Mianus River gorge
near Stamford.
The center of the area is SO miles
from New York City. The United
Nations headquarters would cover
some of Stamford and Greenwich,
Conn, and parts of Harrison, Rive.
North Castle and Pound Ridge, N. Y.
Area Would Become EncIave.
The United States, under a treaty
prepared for American signature,
would receive a fair price" for the
site, which would become an en-
clave-a piece of international ter
ritory.
The treaty says:
1.-THE United States of America
undertakes on the entry into force
of this treaty to vest in the United
Nations the full ownership of all
land in the zone and of all buildings
situated thereon at the moment of
transfer"
The enclave will be unique be-
cause it will be owned by no one
country, but will belong to the 81
United Nations. The United Ma
tons will ask the United States to
police the boundaries and the UNO
secretary will be authorized under
the treaty to ask for American
armed police to come into the zone
when he feels it necessary.
Connecticut Attorney General Will
liam L. Haddon told DR.. Gavrilovic
that the States Constitution pre-
sented no obstacles governing dip
lomatic privileges and extraterri-
torial rights. The land, DR.. Gavri-
lovic said, could be purchased at
s600-s800 an acre.
Three Airports Nearby.
The area is served by numerous
railroads. 1t has three airports
the Westminster County field at
Rye, with its 6,000-foot runways:
the Armonk airport at North Castle
and private field on the Pound
RidG-Stamford town line. Many
park@ays, including U. S. highway
No. !, connecting New York and
Boston, pass through the site.
The meeting place of the UNO in
New York would be the 3,0O0-seat
Center Theater in Rockefeller Cen
ter, now used for ice shows. Hotels
have guaranteed 5000 rooms daily
to the UNO.
UNO committee meetings would
be held in the famous brown
mansion of the late publisher
Whitelaw Reid at Madison avenue
and 50th street, which Mr.. Reds
son, Ogden Reid, editor of the New
York Herald Tribune, and his sister
Lady Ward of England, contributed