Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-06-13
Gromyko Hits Plan
To Put Franco Issue
Up 10 i. n. Assembly
BY the Associated Press

Up TO u. N. Assembly
BY the Associated Press
NEW YORK, June 13.-Sovie
Delegate Andrei A Gromyko toda,
expressed complete disagreement
with a compromise plan for thu
United Nations Security Council t.
refer the Spanish question to the
General Assembly, but did not al
this point invoke his power of veto
The Council adjourned until 2:3(
pm. Monday with the Spanish
question still undecided.
Mr.. Gromyko's stand against the
compromise plan-proposed by the
I united StateS-aS well as a bitter
attack on the conclusions of the
SUBCOMMITTEE which investigated
Spain made it certain that the
delegates would have to arrive a,
another solution if the Spanish
question is to be acted on in the
Council or sent forward to the
Assembly
Calls Plan Dangerous Precedent.
Mr.. Gromyko, who held the floor
through most of today's session,
condemned the compromise plan as
a dangerous precedent which
would mean that the Council has
"evaded its duties
The United States. Australia
France, Poland, China, Brazil and
Egypt-a majority of the Council
backed the plan, which represented
a modification of the subcommit-
tees report.
The Netherlands delegate, DR..
Eelco van Kleffens, sided with Mr..
Gromyko in calling for action bv
the Security Council instead of re-
ferrlng the case to the General As
sembly.
However, DR.. Van Kleffens said
that in the interests of unanimity''
he would not oppose the compromise
plan. He reserved his position for
future discussions.
The next meeting was put over
until Monday at the suggestion of
Sir Alexander Cadogan, British dele
gate, who has yet to tip his hand on
the modified proposal brought up by
DR.. Herbert V. Evatt of Australia,
Hint on Britain's Course.
A hint as to Britains course was
seen, however, when the labor party
meeting at Bournemouth, England
yesterday refused to approve resolu-
tons calling for a break with Franco
Spain.
Mr.. Gromyko today launched into
long review of the Spanish case.
He charged that tine subcommittee
mad arrived at an erroneous" con-
cluslon when it found that Franco
did not at present offer a threat to
world peace.
He said the subcommittee had
made a second wrong conclusion
when it found that the council had
no jurisdiction to direct a break
with Franco.
He said the conclusions of the
councils subcommittee "unfortu-
nately cannot constitute a basis for
unanimous decision on the Spanish
question
The subcommittee had recon-
mended that the assembly call on
the United Nations to break re-
lations with Spain if Franco still
is in power in September. Under
the compromise plan the assembly
would be authorized to decide when
and if to call for break in re-
lations or take whatever action it
deems appropriate.
The General Assembly at it's
meeting in London last winter con-
demned Franco but took no further
steps against him.
Economic Council to Meet.
Meanwhile the United Nations
Economic and Social Council is
scheduled to meet in the Hunter
College Council Chamber at 2:30
pm. today to take up the report Of
the special Committee on Refugees
and Displaced Persons.
The committee, which discussed
the problem of more than 100000
refugees and displaced persons
throughout the world from April s
to June /, was unable to agree on
several points. These included
whether all refugees should be
forced to go back to the country
of origin whether or not they diff
fered with the present regime, and
who should be considered refugees.
The United Nations Commission
on Atomic Energy will meet for the
first time at II a m tomorrow. The
nations represented on the Security
Council, plus Canada, make up the
atomic commission. Canada is in
cluded because of her part in de-
veloping the atomic bomb