Evening star., 1947-03-02
Economic Group Head
Says U. n. Ignores
Own Aciion on Spain
sy NJ A,ss.;s,ss Press

LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y, Mar, L.
eir Ramaswani Mudaliar, president
f the United Nations Economic
ana Social Council, declared today
that the General Assembly had
ignored It's own stand against
Franco Spain by voting to give the
International Chamber of Com
merce Z voice in q. N affairs.
The Franco issue was raised by
Jan PApAnek,. representative of
Czechosloyakia. during debate on
An Assembly resolution directing
that four nongovernmental organ
nations be permitted to submit
items for the Councils agenda.
These Organizations were the
World Federation Of Trade Unions,
the American Federation Of Labor
the International q. Cooperative
Alliance and the INTERIM tional
ChAmber Of Commerce. The AS
semhly has included the latter in
the list despite charges that Franco
Spain was / member OF the I. G.
cf g.
Cans Attention to Resolution.
Mr.. Plpanek did not mention the
International chamber specifically.
ne merely called attention to the
Assembly's resolution barring U. N.
dealings With any organization in
which Spain held membership, and
asked how this ruling would affect
the Councils relationship with the
four organizations In question.
Sir Ramaswami declared that the
Assembly evidently had made an
exception In the case Of the I. G. of
c., since it knew when it acted
whether any of these nongovern-
mental organizations had Spanish
membership or not"
when the same body passes two
resolutions, he said, ut must be
taken for granted that whatever in
consistency one may see in the
adoption OF both resolutions, that
inconsistency was known to the
General Assembly and was ignored
ny the General Assembly.
I'VE must take 1t that the General
Assembly passed these resolutions
with Its eyes ana ears quite open"
Russia Clashes with West.
The Council finally decided that
al four organizations would be per-
mHted to offer items for the agenda
after more than three hours of de-
bate in which Russia and the West
ern powers claahed over whether
these questions would be screened
before acceptance by the Council.
Soviet Delegate Alexander p. Mo-
,roEov contended that they should be
placed on the provisional agenda
automatically. but British Delegate
Hector Mcneil and American Dele
eAtk Leroy Stinebower, backed by
New Zealand ana Canada, wanted
Che proposed items screened by a
steering committee.
Mr.. Morozov also expressed regret
that the General Assembly had re-
fused to give the WF'TU pernis-
sion to have greater voice in the
Councils affairs and reserved the
right to bring UP later Russia's orig
inAl proposal which would permit
the labor organization TO take part
In Council discussions.
11-NAtion Committee Set up.
The Council voted, over Russian
objection, to set up an 11-nation
committee to draft new rules laying
down procedure for handling the
items proposed by the nongovern-
mental organizations and to decide
whether the proposals should be
screened to determine which items
would be accepted.
Biz RAmaswami announced that
the delegates would begin debate
Monday on their No. / problem, the
Question Of creating a permanent
economic commission to help re-
hahilitate the wAr-damaged coun-
tries Of Europe.