Evening star., 1947-10-19
BY the Associated Press

Soviet Russia and her satellites
today boycotted the first test
vote on Secretary of State Mar
.shall's proposal to overhaul
United Nations machinery and
directly served notice they would
refuse to sit in a year-around
assembly even if approved by a
majority of the members.
The ballot on referring the Mar
shall proposal to a drafting sub
committee was 38 to with Russia,
White Russia, Soviet Ukraine,
Poland, Yugoslavia and Czechoslo-
vakia refusing to vote. Four Arab
nations abstained.
A moment later, the Assembly's s
81 nation Political Committee
voted membership on the subcom-
mittee to Russia, Czechoslovakia
and 13 other nations. The Russians
and Czechs Immediately an
nounced that they would not par
ticipate even in drafting work be-
cause the whole plan was illegal"
Compared to Greek Case.
Asked whether these steps meant
that Russia would refuse even to
sit in the Little Assembly" en-
visaged by Gen. Marshall, Soviet
spokesman said today's action could
be compared" to the Greek case.
There, after being voted down, 36
to 6, in efforts to block creation of
watch commission in the Balkans,
Russia and Poland were elected to
seats on the commission and
promptly announced a boycott.
Chairman Joseph Bech of, Luxem-
bourg took note of the Russian and
Czech statements and announced
tartly that places would be left
open on the drafting group, He
had taken the same action after
the boycott in the Greek case.
Argentina, Australia, Bolivia, Can
ada, China, France, India, Lebanon,
Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway,
Britain and the United States were
the other countries assigned the task
of correlating the original Marshall
proposal with a series of amend
ments. Sessions of the sub-com-
mittee will begin some time next
week.
The voting temporarily cleared
the Little Assembly" proposal from
the Political Committees crowded
agenda and opened the way for de-
bate on Russia's "warmonger" and
war propaganda" charges, leveled
chiefly against individuals in the
United States. That discussion will
open next week, probably Thursday.
Meanwhile the full Assembly will
go back into plenary session next
Monday at Flushing Meadow to take
final action in the Greek case.
Third Soviet Boycott.
The Greek and Little Assembly"
boycotts would be the third utilized
by the Soviet Union in the short
history of the U. NJ Russia has
refused to attend meetings of the
Trusteeship Council from the start
on the grounds that it was illegally
constituted. Work has gone ahead
there regardless.
Delegates generally were inclined
to take a far more serious view of
the latest boycott threat. The two
previous ones involved smaller
bodies, but delegates said the seri-
BUSINESS of the absence of Russia
and five other Eastern European
countries from a 57-nation group
could not be minimized.
Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister
Andrei A. Gromyko and Soviet Uk-
rainian Foreign Minister Dmitri
Manuilsky delivered the final pre-
vote attacks on the American plan
and Mr.. Gromyko said his delega-
ton would spare no efforts in at
tempts to undermine" the Mar
shall program.
Lengthy arguments extended the
meeting for four hours and forced
a one-hour delay in the afternoons
session of the Palestine Committee.
Balkan Funds Voted.
Commenting on the Russian and
Czech refusal to take part, DR.. Her
bert v. Evatt Of Australia said In
a post-meeting statement:
"A petulant and unsportsman-
like act-like the little boy who
thinks he can stop the game by
taking away his own bat
Russia made another attempt to-
(See U. NJ, Page A-6)