Evening star., 1946-06-27
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Oskar Lange opposed, threw his
first bombshell into the meeting by
asserting that the resolution was
one Of substance" rather than
procedure" and that his negative
vote therefore had a veto effect.
The chairman, DR.. Francisco Cas-
tillo Najera of Mexico. ruled the
resolution was procedursl Mr.
Gromyko challenged this ruling
Heated discussion lead to a vote by
the Council as to whether the reso-
luton was in fact procedural or sub
stantive, and the Council, with Rus
sia dissenting, supported DR. Castillo
Najeras ruling that it was pro-
cedural. DR.. Castillo Najera then
declared that since The five per-
manent members must concur" in
such a vote, the resolution must be
considered procedural.
so we have one of the members
deciding against the others that 1t
is question of substance" he added.
DIR. Castillo Najera's decision on
this point-the most critical of the
day-Was based on San Francisco
declaration of the Big -Four, later
joined by France, Interpreting the
veto power to the conference. 1t
was not written into the Charter,
Council members pointed out, and
was never put to vote at San Fran
cisco. 1t was, however, incorporated
in the conference records along with
the objections of minor powers,
which viewed with advance alarm
the eventuality which materialized
yesterday
This decision Of DR.. Castillo Ma
jera s was not challenged apparently
because it was assumed all five of
the big powers would feel bound to
stand by their San Francisco de-
claration.
Serious Implications.
II 1t had not been for the serious
implications of what took place,
fundamentally threatening, in DR..
Eyatt's words, ''the whole dignity
and seIf-respect of the council as
we'll as it's right to exist" specta-
tors might have drawn more enjoy
ment from the humorous aspects Of
the proceedings.
There was, for example, the time
DR.. Evatt go so excited he referred
to the Soviet delegate as Mr.. Mo-
gryko." There was also the time
DR.. Eyatt leaped on statement OF
DR.. Castillo Najera's with the asser-
ton, Mr.. President, that is very
serious position!" The weary and
hefuddled Mexican, in tone of
complete astonishment, replied: 1T
u.s."
The difficulties Of multilingual
debate were not lessened by the fact
that Chairman Castillo Najera de-
livered his opinions in such broken
English that English-speaking men,
bers of the Council sometimes did
not know what he had said until
they heard the French translation.
Nor did it ease things when DR..
Castillo Naiera suddenly switched
to broken French, while Mr.. Gro
myko took one of his rare filings at
the English tongue.
Subcommittee Disagreement.
The meeting opened with an an
nounoement by DR.. Evatt of disa-
greement in the ranks of a three
man subcommittee appointed Mon
day to bring in Spanish proposal
on which the Council might be ex-
pected to agree He presented a
draft resolution approved by him.
self and Sir Alexander Cadogan,
British representative, but opposed
by DR.. Lang of Poland. third men,
Der of the subcommittee.
This resolution amended one sub
mitted Monday by DR.. Lang, which
called for keeping the matter on the
Councils agenda, agreeing to dis
cuss it again before September l,
and which referred to the Spanish
[regime as endangering international
peace.
AS amended by the subcommit-
tees ma jority, the resolution did not
commit the Council to reconsidering
Spain by September l and con-
tanned the words without preju-
dice to the rights of the General
Assembly" 1t referred to the con-
tinued existence" of the Spanish
regime as likely" to endaneer peace
II was to this resolution that Mr.
Gromyko addressed his first veto
of the day, declaring it a question
of substance 1t was in the vote as
to whether his first veto was valic
that he applied his second veto.
The Council at length succeeded