Evening star., 1946-08-09
u. S. Will Not Accept Dictation
By Any Ally Byrnes Tells Farley;
Vote Rule OKd> Rebuffing Reds
Committee Action
Accepted, IS to d,
ByFuIIConference
(Tert OF Secretary ByrneS' ad-
dress on Page A-12.J
BY the Associoted Press

PARIS, Aug. 9-The Peace
Conference today rebuffed So
Wet Russia's efforts to apply the
two-thirds rule, after plain
spoken address in which Secre-
tary of State Byrnes declared the
United States would not be die
tated to.
We haven't fought to dictate to
q free world, or to have one OF our
Allies dictate to U.s." Mr.. Byrnes
said.
I'VE are not going to gang up
against any nation. We Will make
concessions-but We will not make
all the concessions.
The 2l-nation conference voted
down, Is to 6, the Russian move
to require a tWo-thirds vote for
adoption of all conference recon-
mendations. The Rules Commit
tee had rejected the tWo-thirds pro-
posal by the same vote, but Russia
Yesterday reopened the issue before
the full conference.
Ace in Hole for Russia.
Russia still has an ace in the
hole. however. She can refuse to
recognize any actions taken by less
than tWo-thirds decision, when they
come before the Foreign Ministers
Council. This Council has veto
power over all Peace Conference
decisions.
The conference adopted, Is to a.
the rules as a whole as proposed
by the Rules Committee. Poland
and Czechoslovakia abstained. The
rule on voting as adopted is the
British compromise under which
both two-thirds votes and simple
majority decisions would be con-
sidered by the Foreign Ministers
Council, but with the two-thirds
decisions carrying the greater
weight. When this came up Soviet
Foreign Minister Molotov said
merely:
1--WE maintain our point of view"
The conference postponed until
later a Yugoslav proposal to invite
Albania to attend with a consulta-
tive voice. Yugoslav delegate
Mosha Pijada said Albania was the
first European state ito fall to
Italian imperialism" and for six
years waged a grim and heroic
struggle"
Secretary Byrnes' suggestion that
plenary and commission meetings
of the peace conference be open to
Hits Talk of Bloc.
Mr.. Byrnes, in his attack on the
Russian voting plan, described as.
loose and wicked talk" a Soviet
charge that voting procedure for the
conference was directed by an
"Anglo-Saxon bloc"
Whence comes this talk of blocs?"
Mr.. Byrnes asked. by what right
do those who vote, ballot after ballot,
with the Soviet Union, call those of
us who do not always agree with the
Soviet Union bloc?
an our efforts during the past
wear to make peace and to make
peace secure, we have found time
and again the rule of unanimity in
sisted upon not to secure unanimity,
not to secure common agreement,
but to block action.
"I believe that this conference
should strive to achieve common
agreement on its recommendations
so far as it possibly can. But I
would be less than frank if I did not
say that those who have insisted
most loudly on unanimity here have
not shown quite the same desire to
achieve unanimity.'
Wants Unanimity.
MIR. Molotov told the conference
yesterday that "the duty Of, an in
ternational conference must be to
establish unanimity between all the
countries taking part" He said the
Soviet Union could not agree that II
countries, simple majority, should
impose their will on 10 others"
The countries voting for the Rus
sian move to reopen the voting
question were Russia, Byelo-Russia,
(See CONFERENCE, Page AID