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torial Commission dealing with the
Finnish treaty draft tried unsuc.
cessfully for four and quarter hour.
to complete its work by polishing of
the four articles in that treaty with
which it had still to deal.
1t did, however, approve of one
OF the articles, No. 6, which has tt
do with respect for human right.
and fundamental freedoms. Ap.
proval was accomplished after the
group had rejected by a 9 to :
vote, an Australian amendmen,
making this respect for human
rights a fundamental law" takine
precedent over all existing laws
which might be passed.
| But when the commission moved
on to consideration of Articles 80
80 and "a, preceding which Australia
proposed to insert a new article
setting up an international court
OF human rights, the wheels of prog
ress ground to a halt. For Aus
tralia sought to postpone discussion
OF its amendment, which is a gen.
eral one applying to all five satel-
lite treaty drafts, until it had been
studied in some other and larger
commission. In this way. it was
urged, consensus could be sestab-
Ashed and the necessity of arguing
the question in five different com
missions averted.
A long discussion ensued as Rus.
sia opposed the idea of postpone.
ment. Viscount Hood, the British
delegate. succeeded in shifting the
case for postponement of discus
sion on the ground that the Aus
tralian proposal was essentially
juridical in nature and should there.
fore be referred for study to the
Legal and Drafting Commission.
VishInsky Fights Back.
Andrei Vishinsky, Soviet delegate
who had rushed from another com.
mission to take over the Soviet ar.
gument on this point. fought bach
with blunt weapons. He said tht
British and. Australians wanted tn,
Australian proposal considered else
where, not for juridical or politica
reasons, but for arithmetical ones
He said the Anglo-Saxon bloc wa.
not so strong in this small commits.
sion as it was in the larger ones, ane
was afraid lest a vote be taken
The commission finally voted 6 tt
in favor of referring the Austria
lian proposal to the Legal anc
Drafting Commission. South Africa
OF the Anglo-Saxon bloc, votee
with Russia against referring tn,
proposal, as did the Ukraine, Bye.
lorussia and Czechoslovakia.
The meeting ended as Mr.. Vishin
sky disputed the chairman's ruin,
that France, although she had no
been at war with Finland, had f;
right to cast deciding ballot in thi
vote. Mr.. Vishinsky declared dark,
that he would take the matter III
elsewhere. The United States dele
gate was absent in this commission
The same Australian amendmen
as was defeated in the Finnish com.
mission was withdrawn by Australia
during yesterdays afternoon session
of the Romanian Political and Ter.
ritorial Commission. Articles 8, .
and S of the Romanian treaty were
approved as drafted. These article.
deal with human rights and the sup.
preston of Fascist influences.
After long and fairly good -naturet
dispute, the Italian Economic Com
mission yesterday approved a.
drafted three more paragraphs o
Article 64 Of the Italian treaty, tn
one dealing with reparations. TIL
dispute was over Paragraph 4, which
sets forth that Italy shall buy from
Russia the raw materials with which
to make the goods she will send t,
Russia as reparations.
Brazil wanted to insert into thi
paragraph the words IF necessary,
arguing that to leave them out woult
mean to restrict Italy's freedom O
J trade. This view was supported b.
Canada, South Africa and Australia
1t drew witty attack from the bus,
Mr. Vshinsky VINO said, among othe
things:
II Are you afraid because we wan
Ito supply raw materials to Italy
gentlemen of Canada, Australia
Brazil and South Africa? - = VIII,
will determine what if necessary
means? Not the gentlemen o
Canada, Australia, Brazil and Soutl
Africa. 1t will be the merchants an
lawyers. If you throw a bone t
merchants and lawyers, they vii
gnaw it and gnaw it until there
left not even the memory of tn
bone"
/ 1t was in this speech that MI
Vishinsky also said: THE Sovie
lpolicy has always been realistic
except when questions of principl
are involved"
The Economic Commission has it
work pretty we'll cut out for tn
next two weeks or so, as it Is now
to hear successfully from II coun
tries other than Russia which seel
reparations from Italy. These are
In the order in which they will pre-
sent their cases, Greece, Albania
Poland. Yugoslavia, Belgium, Brazil
Britain, Ethiopia, Netherlands. Nor
way, France and Egypt. Russia al
ready has had Its claim for 500, 900,
1000 approved.