Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-07-31

SIMPLE majority rule would play
the West against Eastern Europe.
1.-THE conference should be inter-
ested in preventing play on votes
and should be concerned with as
suring the authority of the recon-
mendations it is going to make, and
not in attempting to set of II coun-
tries against seven or eight coun-
tries.
ut should repudiate any play on
votes and see to it that the prestige
of the conference and the authority
of its decisions should not be under
mined"
Mr.. Molotov predicted there was
every possibility the conference
could operate with every proposal
adopted by two-thirds rule.
rs there any reason to believe
that decision reached by a lilo
vote is better than decision
reached by a AT vote?' he asked.
1T would be hard to explain that"
Newsmen Are Present.
ANCNoPoPCl lCpoi CCiS VI Hihlly
countries, sitting in for the first
time in history as peace conference
observers, were in attendance as
the committee plunged quickly into
the troublesome question on which
Mr.. Molotov voiced his support of
Yugoslav proposal for a two thirds
voting rule.
Secretary Byrnes told the con-
ference yesterday the United States
was supporting draft treaty pro-
posals prepared by the four for
eign ministers of Russia, the United
States, Britain and France, but that
If tWo-thirds of the conference dis
agreed with the four power decisions
he would support the conferences
recommendation for revisions.
Mr. Byrnes' proposal tomorrow,
the American informant said, would
carry the proviso that all substantive
proposals which failed to obtain
two-thirds majority should never
theless be sent by the conference
back to the council of four Foreign
Ministers, along with the names of
the countries that voted for it and
with the request that the four
Foreign Ministers give the measure
special consideration.
The first sentence of his three
sentence proposal provided that a
simple majority only would be
needed on questions of procedure.
The second sentence called for
two-thirds majority for all ques-
tions relating to the actual treaty
drafts
The final sentence proposed send
ing defeated substantive proposals
to the Council of Foreign Ministers
for consideration.
Spirited Debate Touched Off.
The Yugoslav proposal plunged
the committee into spirited debate,
with spokesman for Australia and
the Netherlands arguing that a
simple majority should be sufficient
Both Australia and the Neither
lands said the two-thirds proposal
would mean Big -Four domination.
Moisha Pysde. vice president OF
the Yugoslav Assembly, presented
the motion. and also urged hat
Albania be admitted as the twenty
second member of the conference,
which is considering peace treaties
for FIVE former enemy nations.
Treaties with Finland. Italy, Bull
garia. Romania and Hungary
written by the Big -Four, were made
public last midnight and published
throughout the world today.
Belgian Presides.
Paul Henri Spaak, Belgian For
eign Minister. who was elected
president of the Rules Committee
yesterday, presided over the session.
Mr.. Byrnes arrived half-hour
late because of a conference at his
hotel suite with Pietro Nenni, Italian
Vice Premier. No details of this
private meeting were disclosed.
The Netherlands delegation op-
posed the two-thirds majority rule
and the rules of procedure proncsed