Evening star., 1946-11-01
vandenbergHits
5O8oU.S Share
In Cost Of u. n.
Nation Will Not Take
Big Finance Burden,
He Tells Committee
q. S. CALLS ON U. N. to study New
York, San Francisco sites
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BY the Associoted Press

LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y.-NOv.
1.-Senator Vandenberg, Repub-
lican, of Michigan today sharply
attacked the proposed United
Nations budgetary plans with the
fiat assertion that the United
States was not ready to pay SO
per cent of the administrative
costs as suggested.
Senator Vandenberg, American
delegate to the U. N, leveled his
broadside at the whole financial set
up as the General Assembly split
up into 51-nation committees to be-
gin the task of debating more than
SO items on a crowded agenda.
Coupling his stand with strong
appeal for economy, Senator VAN
denberg told the Financial Commit
tee that the United States felt that
the capacity-to-pay yardstick ad-
vanced by the U. N. as a sole basis
for assessments to be inadequate
and unreliable"
"The United States is unable to
accept the f1attering concept that
its economic system is so good that
it gives per cent of the people
of the world control of so per cent
of the earning capacity of the
world" he said. IF our economic
system is that good we might sug-
gest that the other United Nations
adopt it,
Ready to Pay rs Per Cent.
Senator Vandenberg said his Gov
ernment was ready to pay Is per
cent, which he wanted established
as a permanent ceiling on the total
to be assessed against any govern
ment. However, the Senator said
his Government was ready to urge
Congress to approve 33 per cent for
1947 on a strictly temporary basis.
Peace is worth whatever it may
COST he said, but the U. N. will
retrogress when any peace-loving
nation can no longer afford to be-
long. It also will retrogress if 1t
concentrates too much of burden
on one or two members"
Senator Vandenberg said he could
not accept any plan to manipulate"
assessments so that the burden falls
on few, declaring that it would not
be long before the few would be in
sisting on special rights.
Equality of nations could not sur
vive a fiscal system giving so per
cent of the budget to one nation out
of ST." Senator Vandenberg de-
clared.
DR.. C. L. Hsia of China imme-
diately took the floor to agree with
the Senator's statements.
Approach to Veto Weighed.
Meanwhile, the United States
delegation was reported considering
it's approach to the question of the
big power veto in Assembly COM
mittee. While no definite decision
was made on the exact stand to be
taken, it was previously understood
that the United States opposed any
charter amendment, but instead
hoped to get private agreements
among the major powers to limit use
of the special voting right.
The American delegation also was
preparing an amendment on broad
lines to a system of international
inspections and safeguards which
would supplement the Soviet arms
proposals.
The temporary end of the formal
Assembly sessions-noW in recess for
at least a week-found Russia and
the United States competing for
leadership in the disarmament un-
dertaking.
American officials described the
United States proposals for safe
guarding arms control by an inter
national inspection system as re-
volutionary idea that, if adopted,
would result not only in constant
watch over atomic resources of all
nations but also put an end to secret
weapons of all kinds.
While the Soviet Union, which