Evening star., 1946-03-25
Byrnes AssuiIs
Use of Force
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Truman and Byrnes Messages on
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By Gould Lincoln
Stor StoH Correspondent

NEW YORK, Mar. 25.-PreSi-
dent Truman, in a message to
the United Nations Security
Council read to the 11-member
Council by Secretary of State
Byrnes, today pledged the Amer
ican people to cooperate whole
heartedly ito give to the United
Nations the strength and the will
to maintain peace and freedom
in this independent world"
"We are greatly honored," the
Presidents message said. THAT
the United Nations has chosen a
site in our country for its home.
We will do our best to make you
feel at home. But there can be
no home anywhere for the United
Nations unless the United Nations
remain united and continue to work
together, as they have fought
together, for peace and for freedom. y
Secretary Byrnes, addressing the
Council at time when there has
been grave anxiety over Soviet Rus
sia's activities in Iran, pointedly
declared:
mo nation has the right to take
the law into its own hands. If
disputes cannot be settled by
friendly negotiations, they must
be brought before the Security
Council"
Believe Nations Want Peace.
The Secretary added his belief to
that of President Truman that the
American people were resolved firm
ly to uphold the Charter of the
United Nations.
II am sure" he continued, "this
IS the equally firm resolve of all the
peoples of the United Nations who
have joined together to preserve
the peace under law"
The Council, which opened its
meeting today at 2:30 pm. in
Hunter College, is to remain in con-
tinuous session, ready at all times to
deal with any matter that may
threaten international peace. Mr..
Byrnes pointed out that the Charter
requires the Council to function
continuously, and that it is essen
tial.
IF the United Nations is to en-
dure," he said, there must be no
excuse or need for any nation to
take the law into it's own hands.
Upon the Security Council rests the
gravest responsibility for the main
tenance of peace and security. 1t
must of necessity deal with problems
about which nations in the past have
been prepared to fight"
Iran Question Delayed.
The speech of Mr.. Byrnes was
regarded as formal declaration on
the part of the American Govern
ment that it was prepared to go the
limit in support of the Security
Council in its efforts to prevent war
and settle international disputes by
peaceful means, and that this would
be the case whether the disputants
were powerful Russia or Britain or
less powerful Iran or Greece.
The meeting of the Security Coun-
Gil today was to be confined to the
formalities, of Mr.. Byrnes' speech
and addresses of welcome by Gov.
Dewey of New York and Mayor
ODWyer of New York City, leaving
the agenda, with the ticklish prob
lem of the Russo -Iranian dispute, to
be taken up tomorrow.
Before the opening of today's
meeting, some informed sources pre-
dicted that a settlement between
Moscow and Teheran might be an
nounced today or tomorrow. If this
occurs it will be hailed as an i'm
portant development lot only for
peace but for the United Nations
and its Security Council.
The Russian-Iranian quarrel first
was taken up by the Council at
its meeting in London in Janu-
AIRY and was to be reconsidered
at the present meeting here. Ad-
vance settlement directly between
the two nations would be consid-
cred a demonstration of the power
of public opinion to bring about
an adjustment of international
disputes.
The agreement to delay discussion
of the Iranian question until to-
morrow came after the American
delegation received word that
delay of one day was agreeable to
the Russian delegation under Am
bassador Andrei Gromyko.
The development gave additional
(See UNO, Page A-3.)