Evening star., 1946-10-04
Reds Boycott Threat
Appears 10 Doom
Conference onDanube
BY the Associated Press

LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y, Oct. 4.
"A threatened Russian boycott
appeared today to have blocked
United States efforts to force an
immediate conference in Vienna
to take up the question of free
navigation of the Danube River.
United States Delegate John G..
Winant pushed resolution through
the United Nations Economic and
Social Council in the closing hours
of its three-week session late last
night calling for such conference
before November 1, but Russia
served notice she Would not attend.
Two other Danubian states, Yugo-
slavia and Czechoslovakia, also op-
posed the United States move, indi-
eating they also would refuse to at
tend the proposed conference.
Raises Technical Point.
DR.. Andrija Stampar of ,Yugosla-
via, council chairman, raised tech
nical point. which might even pre-
vent any action being taken to call
the meeting. He said that under
the rules of the U. N. no interna-
itonal conference could be called
without prior consultation with the
states to be invited.
He said the United States resolu-
p, tion, approved by a scant margin of
8 to S, with five others abstaining,
. would be turned over to Secretary
General Trygve Lie to take action
according to the rules.
Since Russia, Yugoslavia and
Czechoslovakia are the only states
involved besides the members of the
Control Council in Austria and the
enemy states of Hungary, Romania
and Bulgaria, which would not be
eligible to participate, there seemed
little possibility of meeting.
Refugee Problem Given Assembly.
Other action taken by the Council
IN the 13-hour session that ended
shortly before midnight included:
A decision to pass along to the
General Assembly three proposals
concerning the future care of Eu-
ropes 100000 war refugees. This
tossed into the lap of the Assembly
q deadlock between Russia and the
Western Powers, which the Council
had been unable to break.
A decision to postpone until the
next Council session, scheduled for
next February, action on the key
proposal of plan for the recon-
struction of war devastated areas Of
Europe. This proposal called for
creation of an economic commission
to coordinate the economy of Eu-
rope as a whole and to aid individual
states in recovery. On this subject,
the Council confined its action to
approval of several resolutions call
ing for additional study of conditions
in Europe and Asia and to urging
member nations to make full use of
existing agencies.
Progress on Military Force.
Meanwhile, a statement by Gen.
George C. Kenney, chief of the
United States delegation to the
U. N. Military Staff Committee, in
dicated that some progress was being
made at last in the military discus
sions which have been going On here
for the last five months.
He said Russia had belatedly sub
mitted a proposal looking toward
setting up the international police
force" called for in the U. N. charter.
The other powers, Great Britain, the
United States, France and China,
already had submitted plans.
Gen. Kenney's statement was the
first direct public comment on the
highly secret committee meetings
since that body went into session
last March.
"The Soviet Unions proposal was
submitted about a month ago." Gen.
Kenney said. Eve are now working
together"
A Security Council report made
public earlier in the day said no
Russian proposals had been received
up to July Is, the end of the period
covered by the report,