Evening star., 1947-09-17
Secretary Calls for
Supreme Effort
To Break Crisis
CAUSE OF WORLD PEACE par
alyzed by veto, Mexican asserts.
Page AS
(Tert ON Page A-6.)
By the Associated Press

NEW YORK, Sept. 17.-In a
speech bristling with censure of
Russia, Secretary of State Mar
shall challenged the United Ma
tions today to make a supreme
effort" to break the worlds
deepening political and eco
nomic crisis and save Greece
from the attacks" of its Balkan
Communist neighbors.
With undiplomatic bluntness,
Gen. Marshall accused Yugoslavias
Albania and Bulgaria of hostile
and aggressive" acts against Greece,
told how three Russian vetoes had
blocked Security Council action to
protect the country, then flung this
sharp warning to the 55-nation
U. N. Assembly:
This Assembly cannot stand by
as a mere spectator while a men,
ber of the United Nations is en-
dangered by attacks from abroad.
If the United Nations should fail
TO protect the integrity of one
small state, the security of all small
states would be placed in jeopardy"
Gen. Marshall laid before the
Assembly a seven-point action pro-
gram, dramatically reversing Amer
lean policy on the veto issue and
demanding that the Assembly set
up its own full-time security COM
mittee to backstop the veto-ridden
Security Council.
Veto Liberalization Favored.
He announced that the United
States now favors drastic liberal
lzation" of the veto by eliminating
it entirely from all Security Council
decisions on pacific settlements of in
ternational disputes. The veto could
then be used only on issues in
volving forceful action against ag-
gressors.
He also called for immediate crea-
tion by the Assembly of a Greek
border commission-which Russia
had vetoed in the Security Council;
threw the Russian-American dead
lock on Korea into the Assembly;
asked an Assembly solution for
Palestine; demanded that Russia
come to terms on atomic energy con-
troll and called for vigorous planning
of army regulations.
Gen Marshall's address evidently
marked the opening of an American
diplomatic offensive against Russia
in the United Nations and stressed
the new American policy that when
Russia hanlstrings the Security
Council with veto votes the General
Assembly must take over.
For that purpose he would have
the Assembly's proposed security
committee in constant session, and
would give it membership of IS
4nembers like the Assembly itself.
Then with a plea to the great ma
tions to use their power and privi-
lege with restraint, Gen. Marshall
warned grimly: THE United Ma
tions will never endure if there is
insistence on privilege to the point of
Illustration of the collective will"
7-Point Program Listed.
Here in nutshell is the seven
point program Gen. Marshall laid
down in perhaps the bluntest policy
speech ever made to the United
Nations by an American leader:
l. Greece-The United States will
submit to the Assembly a resolution
squarely blaming Yugoslavia, AL
bania and Bulgaria for Greeces
border troubles, calling on them to
stop supporting Greek Communist
guerrillas and creating a special
commission to watch over the ex-
ploSive Balkan situation.
2. Palestine - The United States
gives serious weight" to the pro-
posals of a United Nations COM
mission for partitioning the Holy
Land between Jews and Arabs The
United States will do it's utmost to
help the Assembly find a solution
for Palestine, but does not expect
(See II NJ PAGE A-6)