Evening star., 1946-04-27
u. n. Council Hopes
Gromyko Will Accede
To Franco Inquiry
BY the A,socioted Pres,

NEW YORK, April GA ma
jority of the United Nations Sc
curity Council membership
hoped today that a weekend
message with new instructions
from Moscow might move Soviet
Delegate Andrei A. Gromyko
from his steadfast opposition to
any subcommittee investigation
of Franco Spain.
There was nothing, however, to
indicate that Mr.. Gromyko would
Waver from his contention that Spain
already has been proved a menace to
peace and that subsidiary pursuit of
the question would lead only to de-
lay, thus forestalling immediate &C
ton against Spain. The 10 other
members of the Council were in
apparent agreement on a proposal
to investigate to determine whether
Spain is, as charged, a threat to
world peace.
Russian Last Holdout.
The Soviet delegate became the
last holdout against the appoint
mont of subcommittee to compile
all the available data on Spain
from the intelligence services of the
individual governments of the U. N.
and any additional evidence it may
turn up. Australian Delegate w. r.
Hodgson twice revised his resolu-
ton proposing the subcommittee
inquiry in an effort to bring the
Council to unanimous agreement.
The third draft was drawn be-
fore yesterdays session at last
minute conference at which Col.
Hodgson won over French Delegate
Henri Bonnet and Dr. Oscar Lange of
Poland, who had riddled the subcom-
mittee proposal with amendments
and counterproposals the day be-
fore in partial lineup with the
adamant Gromyko.
AS soon as the final draft was
laid before the delegates, Rafael
de La Colina, delegate of Mexico,
maneuvered a quick adjournment
until Monday afternoon in order
that new instructions might be
sought in the, interim from the
members home governments and
also to avoid a repetition of the
previous days three and one-half
hours of confused debate.
Believes 1t Ineffective.
Mr. Gromyko Immediately strode'
from the chamber declaring: Il
think I made myself clear yester-
day" He had predicted at that
time that subcommittee investi-
CATION would be no more effective
in stopping aggression than were
the commissions Of the League of
Nations which looked into Man
churia, Abyssinia and Spain.
The current Hodgson resolution
calls for assembly of facts on Spain
alredy in possession of U. N. gov
ernments. Moreover. in the light
of the moral condemnation" of
Franco by the U. NJ collectively and
Council members individually the
subcommittee could conduct further
inquiries and report back "as soon
as practicable"
/ Col. Hodgson has told the Council
the subcommittee should decide for
itself "how and when and where the
| inquiry is to be made" but he en-
phasized that it was for the Council
and not the subcommittee to deter
mine what practical measures the
United Nations might take on the
findings"
Meanwhile, Mr.. Gromyko de-
clared in a letter to the New York
Herald Tribune that the omission
from the official journal of two
paragraphs of speech he made be-
fore the Council April Is resulted
from "a mistake made by the secre-
tariat," and added that he stood
by the paragraphs and wanted them
published in full.
In the two paragraphs he con-
tended the United States delegate.
Edward R. StettiniuS. jr, was "illog-
ical' in stating the American posi-
ton on Iran and was trying to pro
long and initiate" the matter.