The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-15
|SAYS REPUTATION
A PRELUDE TO WAR
Proposes Soviet System Oh
Democracy For Trieste
Government

PARIS, Sept. IA (P Soviet
Foreign Minister Molotov declared
today that efforts to. repudiate the
right of veto in the U. N. Securi-
ty Council should be rejecteds"a
an attempt to prepare a new war
and warned that lit would be
dangerous to ignore the Soviet
Union if the United Nations want
peace.
Proposing "a Soviet system Of
democracy for Trieste, Molotov
made this statement after Aus
tralia. charged yesterday that the
Security Council was unfit to ad-
minister Trieste, and had fallen
Unto disrepute" through "arbi-
trary,, irresponsible and dicta-
torial' use of the veto power.
Molotov declared that "if the
United Nations want to defend
peace without the Soviet Union, or
even against the Soviet Union, it
would be doomed to failure.
"Attempts to repudiate the right
to veto in the Security Council
should be rejected as an attempt to
prepare a new war. The renunci-
alton or reputation Of the right
to veto will help those who are try
ing to set up an Anglo-American
bloc, but they will come to moth
ing for they are doomed to the
same ignominious failure as in
the past"
In an hour and Is minute dis
course in which he veered away
from western power views on in
ternationalizing Trieste, Molotov
declared that Trieste must be
autonomous, democratic and en-
tirely demilitarized, and that not
even United Nations Security Coun-
Gil troops should remain in the
port.
He proposed that the Big Four
set up an international commission
to form a provisional government
in the Trieste territory after con-
sulting focal democratic parties
and organizations
He did not appear to depart flat
ly, however, from the Big Four's
general principle that the Security
Council would administer the terri
tory.
Molotov presented to the Italian
political and territorial commits
sion of the European peace confer
ence a 10-point proposal or inter-
Matchmaking Trieste seeking to
"neutralize and demilitarize" the
area and assure withdrawal of "aH
foreign troops" within 30 days after
the signing of the Italian treaty.
Other points included the giving
of Italy and Yugoslavia free port
zones and all other commercial &C
cess, setting up a Trieste-Yugoslav
Customs and Railway union, cleo
ton of a legislature by universal
suffrage, and designation OF a gov
ernor to enforce the Trieste statute.
He proposed placing police
powers under an executive elect
ed by the legislature and the CIV
ing of citizenship to all inhabi-
tants of the area at the time Italy
entered the war, except Ease
lists"
He advocated also that the Big
Four set up a provisional govern
ment which would order cleo
tons for the legislature held with
in three months.
Immediately after Molotov spoke
the United States and Yugoslavia
asked that they be heard at Mon
days session of the commission.
Molotov asserted that British
French and American proposals
on the Italian treaty draft failed
to provide for ''demilitarizing and
neutralizing" the Trieste area, and
asked, we should like to know
if this means that foreign troops
will remain in Trieste while it
is under the United Nations Secu-
rity Council. We cannot look upon
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