Evening star., 1946-08-07
u, Takes Up Dispute
Today on Admitting
New Member Nations
BY the Associoted Press

NEW YORK, Aug. IA con-
flict over procedure to determine
the fitness of applicants for
membership in the United Ma
Itions was scheduled for airing in
open session of the Security
Council today with a Soviet-led
minority opposed to a majority
headed by the western powers,
China and Australia.
The disputed method bears di-
rectly on the consideration of the
first two of eight or more applicants
to be examined
Thus far the Albanian and Mon
golian Peoples Republics, both sup
ported by Russia for membership,
have been opposed for immediate
admission into the u N. by Greece
and China. respectively.
Issues Outlined.
The issues before the Security
Council concern the extent to which
the Councils Membership Commit
tee may go to gain information on
whether an applicant qualities as
a peace-loving state.
The conflict sprang from resolu-
TONS submitted to the committee
by Australia and China and adopted,
over Soviet opposition, by affirmative
votes of seven and eight out of
eleven.
The Australian resolution en-
powers the committee to consider
written statements of facts from
any of the applicant states or from
any member of the u N which bear
on the applications; the Chinese
measure gives the committee the
right to solicit information from
U. N. members or the applicants
which might be pertinent in de-
termining the peace loving nature
OF a prospect.
Resolutions to Be Studied.
The resolutions adopted in closed
session were referred to the Secur-
ity Council for further considera-
ton, apparently at the insistence
of Russia Robert Fack of the
Netherlands, chairman of the Mem
bership Committee. placed a men,
orandum on todays council agenda
declaring the minority view of the
committee was that in adopting
both resolutions the committee went
beyond its terms of reference"
The committee already had pro-
ceeded under terms of the resolu-
tions on both the Albanian and
Mongolian applications.
Greece. which is not a member of
the Security Council has filed
long memorandum with the commit
tee charging Albania canont qualify
as peace-loving state and the COM
mlttee has named subcommittee
to PROFOUND series of questions to
be put to the Albanian government.
Albania's representative here, Col
Tux Jakova, minister without port
folio, called a press conference last
night at which he issued a blanket
denial of all the Greek charges.
China urged at least years delay
in considering the application of the
Mongolian Peoples Republic, for
merly a part of China known as
Outer Mongolia, which severed the
old connection by unanimous vote
in plebiscite swinging the nomadic
grazing land into the Soviet orbit.
Test TO Be Applied.
The Membership Committee de-
cided it would apply three-ply test
on all applicants to determine
Whether the applicant was peace
loving.
Whether nOnrecognition by U. N.
member or members on the diplo-
matte front would constitute an OBJ
Stacle to admission.
Whether an existing dispute be-
tween an applicant and a member
of the U. N. would be a barrier to
admission
Both Albania and Mongolia were
left to future consideration and the
committee planned to take up the
application of Afghanistan when it
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