The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-23

noting the anxiety of all peoples for the success of their statesmen's search for peace, was the only real business of the day.
 But there was a full round of ceremony in the New York tradi- tion-a reception at City Hall, a parade up Broadway, a formal luncheon, and President Truman's reception for the LIN diplomats. Byrnes and former Sen. Warren R. Austin, chief American delegate, planned brief speeches during the city's welcoming ceremonies. Despite the temporary tinge of carnival spirit, the UN's most repre- sentative body gathered in an at- mosphere clouded by international friction. The assembly faced a calendar of business pickmarked by plain threats of stormy sessions to come-battles among the Big Five powers, battles between the big na- tions and small nations over the LIN veto power, and a score of troublesome scraps over localized | issues.
 Differences At Core
 The suspicion and the angry dif- ferences between Russia and the western powers-the United States, Britain and the many countries which support them in today's in- ternational politics-sat at the core of the Assembly's machinery.
 While the Assembly struggles with them, the same differences will get special attention after Nov. in the private meetings of the Big Four Council of Foreign Min isters to be held concurrently with the .4ssembly sessions at the Wal dorf- Astoria Hotel.
 Byrnes, returning to Washington after today's ceremonies, will come to New York then and Molotov will hand over his Assembly re- responsibilities to Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky.. British Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin and French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault were due later for the foreign ministers barley
 The friction between Russia and Anglo-American countries were likely to become dearest in the As sembly's debate over the big power veto in the LIN Security Council a fight in which the United States was expected to join Russia in de- lending the veto and at the same time join Britain in criticizing Rus sia's use of the Council voting formula. ...
 400 Sessions Planned
 There were frank assertions that if the Assembly'S only accomplish ment were to erase the tensions be- tween the so called Soviet and western blocs, the UN's future as the key to world peace would be secure.
 The down-to-earth debate was reserved for more than 400 assem- bly, committee sessions scheduled to begin next week at the UN's semi permanent headquarters at Lake Success, eight miles further out on Long Island.
 But chief delegates of each of the 51 nations prepared opening statements of their governments policies for the start of general debate late Thursday or early Fri day in the Assembly Hall.
 Behind the dais from which al least 51 speeches will be made hangs huge symbol of the United Na- tions-a great blue and gold map of the world, unmarked by na- tional boundaries. Stretching before the platform were seats and long work tables for some 450 diplomats, seats for a few hundred spectators and a press gallery with 400 seats for correspondents from through out the world.
 Issues Enumerated
 By Tuesday, the stage probably will be set for the shirtsleeve com mittee negotiations over such vita issues as these:
 1. The big power veto-small
 powers are out to eliminate or
 limit the big power veto and
 the United States and Britain
 are expected to criticize what , they, term Russia's excessive use l of the veto right. But the big five were certain to unite
 against any effort to change the l Security Council voting formula , The agenda contains three ; separate attacks on the veto. 2. Trusteeship agreements the Assembly can set up the
 UN's trusteeship council this
 year unless 18 or more nations
 block approval of draft agree ments under which Britain
 France and Australia would be- come trustees over some of the mandates granted them by the.
 old League of Nations 3. Permanent headquarters the assembly probably will re-
 open the entire question ot
 where to locate the UN's per
 manent capital, with New York's
 offer of this 350-acre Flushing
 Meadows site and San Fran
 cisco's offer of three sites were
 slated for considerable support.
 Geneva, home of the defunct
 League of Nations, also was
 mentioned. Westchester County
 original choice of the LIN, faced
 possible elimination because ot
 its cost and the opposition by
 its residents.
 
 4. Russias proposal for a LIN
 survey of Allied troops in non-
 enemy countries-this move,
 aimed at American and British
 forces in such places as China.
 Latin America, Greece and
 Egypt, already has been tossed
 out of the Security Council
 without hearing.
 5. International Refugee or
 ganization-the United States
 proposed to push for its estab-
 lishment despite emphatic op-
 position from Russia and her
 satellites and half -heartSd sup
 Yort from Many western coup-
 tries. It would succeed UNRRA
 as caretaker of some 100000
 displaced uerSOnS In Europe