Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-02-02
UN0 Site Group
Favors Location
In Connecticut
New York Is Urged as
Headquarters Until
New Home Is Ready
BULLETIN.

BULLETIN.
LONDON R.-The United
Nations Site Committee rec
commended today that the
permanent UNO headquarters
be located in the Connecticut
New York State border area,
centering in Stamford and
. Greenwich, Conn. About one
: third of the 40 to so square
mile district would be in New
York State. New York City
would be interim headuuar-
tiers of the UNO while the
permanent site was being
prepared.
By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Feb. 2.-United Ma
tons delegates envisioned a new
era OF franknesS in international
diplomacy. today after Soviet
Russia and Great Britain clashed
openly on the Greek dispute be-
fore the Security Council.
Most of the statesmen said an
amlcable solution of the dispute it
self was probable and that its most
significant aspect was the way it was
handed, with CARLSON timetable
debate replacing the traditional Sc
cret diplomacy.
Although there was no immediate
indication as to what course the de-
bate would take when the Council
meets Monday, some delegates ex-
pressed the belief that the case could
be settled satisfactorily, without
either party losing face, by sending
a UNO commission to Greece to
investigate.
Lie Takes Office.
Trygve Lie, former Foreign Min
lister of Norway, took office today as
the first secretary general of the
United Nations. He was seated at
the. right hand of President Paul
Henri Spaak as the Assembly
buckled down to issues it must dis
pose of to make next Saturdays
adjournment deadline.
Averting a floor fight on a con-
troversy that has fired committee
meetings for weeks, the Assembly
voted, Al to 0, to put on its agenda
a Soviet-sponsored demand of the
World Federation of Trade Unions
for association with the United Ma
tons.
Immediately, however, the Assem-
bly, approved by reclamation mo-
ton by Senator Connally, Democrat,
of Texas, one of the American dele
gates, to refer the whole thing to
the Assembly's Political and Security
Committee on the ground that none
of the committees which have dis
cussed the matter so far could agree
on it. The CLIO is affiliated with
the WITH and the American Fed
Grafton Of Labor is not.
In the debate yesterday British
Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin has
indicated he would welcome any in
quiry into RuSsia'S charges that the
maintenance of British troops in
Greece was endangering the peace.
Britain is committed to withdraw
from Greece anyway after the Greek
national elections, and the urgency
of the situation, in the Russian view,
might thus be eased before COM
mission could make a detailed in
vestigation and prepare a report.
Some delegates said privately that
Russia did not seem to be pressing
the case to the fullest extent. In
this connection, UNO officials point
ed out that Andrea Vishinsky, Soviet
vice commissar of foreign affairs,
did not mention the strategic and
economic Importance of Greece to
the British emperor to Russia.
Despite the warmth of yesterdays
debate some delegates saw the frank
discussion as a good omen" for
future peace.
"We're succeeding where the
League of Nations failed" DR.. Hart
Wig Frisch, veteran Danish states
man and leading Scandinavian
delegate, told a reporter.
1.-THE exhibition yesterday after
noon was true international collabo-
ration. 1t proved that distruSt
could be aired in frankness. 1t is
a new era"
His comments summarized those
made by many other delegates after
listening to Mr. Bevin counter
Russian charges by asserting that
the real danger" to peace lay in
what he termed Soviet anti-British
propaganda and by demanding
yes-or-no verdict by the Council
as to whether Britain was leopard
izing the peace.
"It's good omen for the future
for nations to be able to bring their
problems out and discuss them
openly and frankly" DR.. Luis
Padillo Nervo, Mexican member of
the Council, said on leaving the
meeting room. ut helps avoid sus-
picion and diStrust."
Senator Connally said:
That's what this organization is
for-to get all these problems out
in the open and air them so every
body can understand them and see
what's going on. We can't leave all
these diplomatic things bottled up
the way they've been in the past"
Indian Delegate Sir Samuel Rang
anadhan said the debate signaled a
promising new era in the inter-
80 -