Evening star., 1946-04-03
Iran Offers to She|ve UNO Case
If Reds Will Evocuote by May 6;
Pressure Is Denied by Gromyko
Envoy Tells Council
Withdrawal Is Not
Linked to Demands
BY the Assoeioted Press

NEW YORK, April 3.-Iran Of
fered today to let the United
Nations Security Council shelve
the 1ranian case temporarily,
provided Russia would give as
surances that Russian troops
would be Withdrawn from the
country Internationally by May 6.
The Council, having received last
minute replies from both Russia and
Iran to its inquiries of last Friday
on the state of negotiations between
them, then adjourned at 11:46 am
until II am. tomorrow.
Russia said troop Withdrawals
from Iran we're not conditional on
other negotiations with Iran over
such matters as Oil and the like.
Gromyko Not Present.
Troops will be out of the country
within a month and a half, the
Council was informed in the mes
sage from Ambassador Andrei A.
Gromyko, who, however, continued
his boycott of the Iranian discus
sion by not actually attending the
meeting
Iran, in a letter from Ambassador
Hussein Ala, advised that negotia-
tions with Russia, in accord with a
Council decision at London, had
failed, that Russian interference in
1ranian affairs had continued, that
Russia had made demands parallel
with her troop withdrawals-but
that, above all, Iran wants
friendly, peaceful settlement of the
situation.
Secretary of State Byrnes asked
Mr.. Ala what he would suggest. The
action-packed meeting, expected to
produce dramatic results of one sort
or another ever since the Council
voted its inquiries to Moscow and
Teheran and adjourned last Friday
had reached its apparent climax.
Asks for Assurances.
1T the Soviet representative, Mr..
Ala said. would be willing to with
draw the condition of unusual cir
cumstanceS which he attached to
the withdrawal of troops and give
the Security Council assurance of
withdrawal of all Soviet forces from
Iran effective May at the latest.
Iran would be willing not to press
for further consideration of the mat
ter before the Security Council at
this time, provided the matter was
retained on the agenda."
This was possibly the break that
everybody had been working for.
Evidently to avoid letting it get tied
up in parliamentary snarls of the
kind which SO many Council meet
ings have produced, DR.. Quo Tai-chi
of China, Council president, sudden
ly stopped all discussion by adjourn
ing the Council until tomorrow.
After the morning meeting it was
reported by some officials that mem
bers of the Council were planning
to hold closed session at UNO's
Rockefeller Center headquarters
later in the day.
Gromyko to Be Informed.
It also was learned that steps
were taken, evidently more or less
unoficially, TO inform Russian Am
bassador Andrei A. Gromyko fully
of today's developments.
Both the reported secret meeting
and the advlces to Mr.. Gromyko
were described as measures designed
to help along an early solution of
the Iranian crisis if at all possible.
The atmosphere of this mornings
meeting on the whole was quiet. The
spirit of excitement which had at
tended speculation on whether Rus
sia would reply at all to the Councils
inquiries was eased after it became
known, in an eleventh hour an
nouncement by Trygve Lie, secre-
tary general, that a Russian message
was on hand.
Members generally seemed agreed
that substantial progress had been
made. Russia had not snubbed the
Council, but given instead the sub
stance of the main information it
wanted. Trans reply had offered, in
conjunction with Mr. Alas state
ment, possible solution.
There were no immediate op-
timistic predictions, but as the
session broke up the atmosphere
seemed to be distinctly hopeful.
The letter from Ambassador Ala
stated on behalf of Iranian Premier