Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-02-18
American Among -Four
Named by Trygve Lie
To UN0 Secretariat
BY the Associated Press

LONDON, FeO. IL. - Secretary
General Trygve Lie announced four
appointments to the United Nations
secretariat over the weekend as
final items of business were disposed
of following the adjournment of the
Security Council.
The new appointees are Abraham
H. Teller of New York, who will be
general counsel to the secretary gen.
eral, with the rank of director;
Arkady A. Sobolev of the USSR, as
sistant secretary general in charge
of the department of Security Coun-
cial affairs; Adrian Pelt of the Meth
erlands, assistant secretary general
in charge of the conference and gen.
eral services, and A. D. K. Owen of
Britain, executive assistant in the
Office of the secretary general with
the rank of director
Mr.. Teller, Al, was advisor to the
United States delegation at the Gen
eral Assembly here. He served as
special assistant to the United States
Attorney General from 1884 to 1910,
was consultant to the lease-lend ad-
ministration in l94l, and was gen.
eral counsel and deputy director Of
the Owl from 1912 to 1914.
Sobolev Is Diplomat.
Mr.. Sobolev is a Russian dipko-
mat, Mr.. Pelt formerly headed the
Netherlands Governments informa-
ton service, and Mr.. Owen formerly
lectured at Glasgow University and
was personal assistant to Sir Stat
ford Grips from 194l to l943.
At the closing session of the Sc
curity Council Saturday night, Rus
STA invoked the veto power, thus
overruling a United States proposal
for negotiation of the demand by
Syria and Lebanon that French and
British troops be withdrawn imme-
diately from their territory.
This marked the FIRST time that the
veto power-vested in Russia
France, China, Britain and the
United States-had been used in
the Council.
The Soviet action took the Levan-
tine dispute out of the Security
Councils hands, but British Foreign
Secretary Ernest Bevin promised
that Britain and France would carry
out terms of the United States pro-
posal.
Earlier, the Russians charged that
Polish troops under British COM
mand in Italy we're a possible threat
to Yugoslavia. Soviet Foreign Vice
Commissar Andrea Vishinsky. as
sertedly acting for the Yugoslav
government, filed memorandum
declaring that the Polish troops
were "a possible threat to peace.
calm and order" on the Yugoslav-
Italian frontier.
No action was taken on the memo
randum, since none was requested
by either Russia or Yugoslavia.
The l.aborite Daily Herald said
today Mr.. Bevin had sent a note
to the Security Council which will
refute completely the main points
of the Yugoslav charge that Polish
troops are being moved toward the
Yugoslav border
Note to Be Published.
The newspaper added that the
note probably would be published
tomorrow.
The Commission on Human Rights
received a request from Edward r.
Stettinius, chief United States dele
gate to the UNO, to draft a resolu-
ton on the problem of freedom
Of informa ton" for submission to
the economic and social council and
the United Nations.
He also handed to Secretary Gen.
eral Lie communications on the sub
ject from Kent Cooper, executive
director of the Associated Press:
Hugh Baillie, president of the United
Press, and Wilbur Forrest. chair
man OF the Standing Committee on
World Freedom of Information of
the American Society of Newspaper
Editors.
Mr.. Cooper in telegram to Mr..
Stettinius, said that the open con-
duct of the United Nations session
now concluding, permitting full and
free access to the news, raises high
hopes for the achievement of a
stable world order based on world
public understanding and enlight-
yoenf