Evening star., 1947-11-09
u. NJ.
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Earlier, DR.. Evatt, who Is chairman
of the Palestine Committee, had
said he would call the 57-Nation
body into session next Tuesday and
hold continuous meetings until a de-
cision is reached on Palestine.
Developments in the Palestine is
sue conceded with debate in the
57-nation Political Committee over
applicants for U. N membership re-
jected by the Security Council, prin-
cipally through Russian vetoes.
Italy, Austria, Ireland, Trans
Jordan, Portugal and Finland have
been turned down by Russian vetoes
and Outer Mongolia, Albania, Hun
gary, Rominia and Bulgaria through
failure to muster the necessary seven
votes in the 11-nation Council.
The Political Committee ad-
journed at 6:28 pm. until Monday
with a batch of resolutions still be-
fore it. Britain and Russian in
sisted on a night session but were
voted down % to 18.
Nicaraguan Student Ousted.
During the meeting a Nicaraguan
student was escorted from the
chamber as he prepared to deliver a
speech aimed at Soviet Delegate
Andrei A. Gromyko. The potential
demonstrator told U. N. officials that
he was Luis A. Icaza, jr., and was
president of the Pro-Union of Gen.
tral America which seeks a United
States of Central America.
DR.. Mohamed Fadhil Jamai of
Iraq challenged Russian and Polish
opposition to Trans Jordan through
questioning the applicants inde-
pendence.
''Trans-Jordan is as much an in
dependent state as Poland or my
own country" he declared.
Mrs. >Vijayalakshmi Pandit of
India spoke in favor of Trans
Jordan and Ireland, also vetoed by
Russia, but upheld the rejection of
Portugal.
The Portuguese government is
Fascist" she said tersely.
SESSION ADEOdu IOSLly.
During the membership debate, DR..
Jose Arce, of Argentina, said 1t
seems that the Soviet Union prefers
the god of war to the god OF justice
and accused Russia of seeming to
advance the theory of living space
advanced by the now dead Fuehrer." I"
He declared that Moscow's pro-
posals in the U. N. lead us to be-
lieve that the Soviet Union wants
more territory. We are led to the
conclusion that there will finally
be no more land left on earth and
we will all be under the government
of the Soviet Union"
Sweden called on the u N. to ad
NIT more members on the grounds
that the peace agency would not be
complete until the idea of univer-
salty was attained.
Meanwhile the U. N. reported 1t
would cost more than 100000 to
hold the 1948 General Assembly in
Europe as suggested by France and
Sweden. The figure given for hold
ing the meeting here was $961 ,679.
In Geneva, where the U. N. could
utilize old League of Nations ia
cilities, the bill would be $2,298, ,023;
at any other city in Europe the
cost was estimated at $2,444, ,241.
The 57-nation Budgetary Commit
tee of the Assembly referred the
question of cost of European ses-
sion, to its advisory committee, which
is to report next week. Several COM
declared that the over
all costs of the temporary shift
across the Atlantic was not the only
consideration, but the committee
held that it could not judge the
merits of the proposal. 1t decided
it could only report its effect on the
U. N. treasury.
A checkup on payments to the
U. N. by member governments
showed that almost $3.000,000 still Is
due toward the 1947 budget of $27,-
100000. China, assessed per cent,
still owes the U. N. $1,000, 900 and
Russia Is the second largest debtor
with $685. The Soviet Union is
assessed 6.34 per cent.