The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-23
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ted by The Netherlands represen-
tative and modified by China to
give the council a slight voice in
the matter.
johnson said the council should
use the "career consuls" to report
on the cease-fire order ito make
certain that new hostilities don'1
break out to threaten international
peace and security"
Juliusz Katz-Sucny Of Poland
warned the council that hostilities
were continuing in Indonesia and
that in delaying three weeks, the
council was playing into the
hands Of complete occupation OF
1ndonesia by The Netherlands"
The council, he SAID, could be
playing with another Ethiopia.
II can't help referring to the
case of Ethiopia" Katz-Suchy
said. Il don't intend to draw an
analogy between The Netherlands
and fascist Italy. There Is a very
great difference, but at that time
the council of the League Of Ma
tons, instead of taking prompt
action which would have saved
the world much suffering, went
into prolonged discussions about
defense of the white race, white
supremacy and illiteracy."
The Poles warning ended an
other indecislve meeting, after
high delegates tabled the case un-
til Monday afternoon.
Gromyko's speech amounted to
a flat rejection Of all three In
donesian proposals now before the
council. He said they all would re-
suit in by-passing the United Ma
tons.
johnson submitted a formal AM
erican resolution proposing that
the council, through a special
committee. extend its "good Of
fices'' to both the Dutch and the
embattled Indonesian republic.
He said, however, that the
United States was not sure wheth-
err the council had the right to
press for a long-term political set
Element Of the dispute, and sug-
gested that the question Of the
UN's jurisdiction in the dispute
might be turned over to the in
ternational court Of justice for an
advisory opinion.
He made these proposals after
Andrei Gromyko, Russia's dele
gate charged The Netherlands
g government with trying to
drown the dispute in tech
nicalities and. empty CONVEX
sation." Gromyko was re-
spending to Dutch Ambassador
Eelco Van Kleffens who in
an 4 told you 500. speech, 1ectur-
ed the council for half an hour
about the failure" of the cease
fire order it issued Aug. /.
johnson proposed formally that
the council:
l. Tender its "good offices" to
both parties to assist in the ''paci-
fic settlement" Of the dispute.
2. Express its readiness. if the
parties so request, to aid in a long
term settlement through a coun-
ell committee OF three members.
The Dutch and the Indonesians
each would select one member,
and the two selected nations then
would name the third member.
The new American resolution re-
presented a change in the United
States resolution, which originally
seemed to favor the Dutch plan
for impartial" investigation of
the dispute outside the United Ma
tons.
The UN observers most favored
by johnson would be career on
suls already in Batavia who re-
present transformations now on
the security council. The govern
ments of the United. States, Bri-
tain, France, China, Belgium, and
Australia are now represented
there, in addition to Switzerland
and several other small nations.
Gromyko, said the council
should not allow members. and
the representative of the Neither
lands to remove the essence of
the discussion and drown it in pro-
cedural technicalities."
1T at each meeing Of the
security council the question of
jurisdiction. . is considered. our
meetings will be transformed into
a comedy" Gromyko said. mo
honest man in the world will un-
derstand why the security council
doesn't deal seriously with the
matter"
1ndia's Delegate P. P. Pillai de-
nounced Van Kleffens for compar-
ing the I%ndonesian conflict to the
trouble between Hindu India and
Pakistan the new Moslem state.
He said Van Kleffern's statement
was "a complete travesty of the
facts and. the law"
Pillai said Hollands position
lldI ule councu mas no JurlSdlc-
ton in the Indonesian dispute was
an attempt to gain time" against
the Indonesia republic.
THE situation brooks no delay,
he said "the charter gives the Sc
curity council all the authority it
needs to deal with the situation"
He said the council should resist
any attempt to settle the Indone-
sian dispute outside the United Ma
tons.
"Otherwise, he said, "the United
Nations will not be any more eff
fective than the old league COT ma
tions) in conserving peace and pre-
venting war"