The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-24
Lie Asks LIN to Uproot Franco
Bottle Lines On Veto Issue Being Drown
 Secretary Urges
 Assembly Restore
 Liberty in Spain

United Nations Hall, Flush ing, N. Y., Oct. 24-UP)- The question of action against Franco Spain explod- ed into the United Nations General Assembly today as battle lines were drawn be- tween the United States and Russia over the controversial veto issue.
 Secretary General Trygve Lie tossed Spain into the General Assembly hopper with a demand for action and a plea that ways and means" oe found to restore liberty and democ- racy to Spain which he said would remain a constant cause of "mls- trust and disagreement until Gen. eralissimo Francisco Franco IS Uop- pied from power.
 Lies injection of the Spanish issue came as the United states delegation took a strong stand TOT full debate of the veto issue 1n op- position to Russian efforts to pre- vent the question from coming o | the General Assembly floor.
 Assembly Barred From Action l Lies action in calling for actlon against Franco Spain constlEuteo exercise of his privilege as secre- tary general to call the UN's atten- tion to situations threatening l Vr,or1d yNooca and security.
 Lie told the United Press that he now expected a member nation, possibly Norway, to request that the spanish issue be put on the LIN agenda for full debate. The As sembly would then discuss span but is barred from taking torma! action on the case because It stlA is technically on the agenda of the Security Council.
 The first stage of the fight over the Big Fives veto power in the LIN Security Council developed behind the scenes even before President Truman told the Assembly late yes- terday that the special power held in the Council by the United States. Russia, Britain, China and France carried with 1t "a special obligation"
 Began Tilt Tuesday British sources said that Soviet Russia began stiff defense of the great power veto in the lnltlal meeting of the Assembly's 14-mem- Der general (steering) committee, an informal private meeting held !. here late Tuesday. Deputy Soviet 3 Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky, ] the sources said, objected to the ? Assembly's taking up Cuban pro . posals that the United Nations call ? a convention and knock the veto provisions out of the LIN charter. . The Assembly called two plenary t sessions today-the first beginning ] at II A. M. EST-to consider some ] routine matters, hear Secretary 9 General Trygve Lies report on UN : progress and possibly to begin four = days of general debate.
 It was possible that Minister of }. State Philip Noel-Baker, Britalns d acting chief delegate, would be one : of the lead-of speakers in the gen. = eral opening oratory-a siege or 5l e individual speeches by chiefs oi . delegations.
 The steering committee had to e meet again today or tomorrow to - resume discussions of the 53 items = proposed for the agenda, including e the Cuban proposals to which Rus l. sia objects. A third aimed at tne d veto power was Australia's reques,
 that the Assembly discuss limiting l. its use by the Big Five powers. It Defense Prepared T. While Russia began her active s attack on the small nations vete g strategy, the United States ane l. Britain prepared their own defense'
 of the Council voting formulate.
 lenses which MT. Truman's speecf
 and Prime Minister Clemen
 Attlee's address to the British
 House of Commons yeSterda.
 showed would include criticism O
 Russias use of the veto.
 American officials conceded priv
 ately that the opening move in
 careful U. s. defense of the veto
 provision favored by the Unitet
 States as strongly as by Russia
 was contained in MT. Truman
 speech to the Assembly.
 When combined with the instruc
 tions being given to Warren R. Aus
 tin and his American delegation t
 the Assembly, MT. Truman's remark
 on the veto were taken as an indirec
 criticism of Russia's use of the coun
 cil voting formula in the Council t
 date.
 Austin reportedly planned to op
 pose a change in the veto formuls
 but to support discussion of its ap
 plication in the hope that the debat
 will lead to an agreement anon
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