Evening star., 1946-09-13
Australian Hits
Plan for u. n.
To Rule Trieste
Council in Disrepute
Through Use of Veto,
Hodgson Declares
BY the Associoied Press

PARIS, Sept. 13.-An Australian
delegateto the Peace Conference
said today that the United Ma
tions Security Council was in
disrepute through arbitrary use
of the veto power and should
not be permitted to govern the
proposed free territory of Trieste.
The use of the veto power in the
Security Council has been arbitrary.
irresponsible and dictatorial and
has brought the Council into disre-
pute throughout the world" said
Col. w. R. Hodgson, who has served
as a delegate to the Council.
1T would make the Trieste port
question a threat to world peace"
To put the Trieste question in the
hands of the Security Council, as
suggested by the four power Foreign
Ministers Council, would insure
making the plan unavoidable" Col
Hodgson argued. He said Trieste
should be governed by a council
representing the United States,
Great Britain, Soviet Russia, France
and three other nations.
This problem belongs for decision
and approval in this 21-nation con-
ference here and the port should be
administered by council of the Big
-Four and three other nations he
said in debate before the Italian
Political and Territorial Commission.
Molotov Asks Information.
Col. Hodgson's outright attack
held implications of support for the
opening question of Soviet Foreign
Minister Molotov, who demanded
information as to how the United
States proposed to guarantee the
liberty of the Trieste area under
the Security Council scheme. Un-
derlying Col Hodgson's attack, how
ever, was Australia's steady fight on
Russia S own use of the u. N. veto
power, fight Col Hodgson himself
carried on before the Security Coun-
Gil against Andrei Gromyko of the
U. S. S. r.
The American delegate on the
commission said only that he was
not prepared to give a precise an
swer to Mr.. Molotov's question at
this time
James G. Dunn, American Am
bassador to Rome and chief Ameri-
can delegate on the commission,
said only that the American plan
called for the Security Council to
name the governor of the free city
of Trieste and that the governor
would be its representative in ad-
ministering the area.
The debate was begun at the
insistence of Slav delegates, who
contended that full argument on
the question should precede the
work of an eight-nation subcom-
mission appointed two days ago te
draft the statute for Trieste, or
which the Big -Four and their dep.
uties have been unable to agree.
Oppose Corridor With Italy.
Following the debate on th'
statute, the full commission was Il
argue the boundaries of the in
ternationalized area proposed by tn
Big Four Most of the Slav groul
want it confined to the city bound
aries of Trieste and want it t.
have no corridor with Italy, t,
which the port now belongs
Czechoslovakia, opening the dis
cussion today, argued that her sol
interest in the solution of tn,
problem was to assure free por
on the Adriatic for Czechoslovaki'
and that neither Yugoslav nor Ital
ian favoritism influenced the stand
which generally has hewed to th'
Yugoslav line thus far.
Other unsolved problems on th'
conference agenda included that o
Thrace and the, right bark Of th'
Danube, as the peacemakers laboret
to change the map of Europe draw
(See CONFERENCE, Page A-4)