Evening star., 1947-08-13
Egyptians Reported
Against Hague Court
In British. Dispute
BY the Associated Press

LhAG oUCCESS, Aug. 13.-
Egypt is opposed to putting her
case against Britain before the
International Court Of Justice
at The Hague, an authoritative
source declared today.
This view was expressed as the
United Nations Security Council
gathered for the third airing this
afternoon of the case in little more
than a week.
Sir Alexander Cadogan, the Brit
ish delegate. who so far has delivered
two long speeches on Egypt, was
ready with an answer to an Egyptian
blast delivered Monday.
Egypt has demanded repeatedly
that the Security Council order the
British to leave Egypt Immediately
and to terminate the joint British
Egyptian rule over the Sudan.
/ The British argue that Egypt
signed treaty covering these points
which is good until 1856 and that
the issuesB whether any nation can
break atreaty by appealing to the
United Nations.
Apparently seeking to knock down
reports that the case might 20 to
the international Court, source IA
miliar with Egyptian policy said that
Egypt Is opposed to any "legalistic"
settlement of the dispute. This
source said the Egyptian people
wanted a clean-cut decision and did
not want to become involved in legal
maneuverings.
Indonesia Gets Seat.
Meanwhile, the Security Council
paved the way for long statement
on the conflict in the East Indies
by deciding to seat representative
of the 1ndonesian Republic.
The vote, taken late yesterday,
was 8 to 3, with Britain, France and
Belgium in the negative.
The Council president, Faris el
khoury of Syria, asked Sutan
Sjahrir, former Premier of the In
donesian government, to come to the
table, but before Mr.. Sjahrir could
rise from his seat on the front row
of the spectators section the Council
began wrangling over a Dutch
Belgian demand that representatives
of the states of East Indonesia and
West Borneo also be seated.
The Indonesian affair was put off
until tomorrow at pm, when Mr..
Sjahrir Is expected to take his seat.
The Council also must decide on a
second request from the Philippines
to be heard on the Indonesian fight
ing and an Australian motion for
the Council to create a commission
to report directly to the Security
Council on the situation in Indo-
nesia.
Herschel v. Johnson. American
deputy delegate, told the Council
that his Government favored hear
ing the Indonesians, but would take
no stand now on recognition of the
Indonesian Republic. He said the
Indonesians must be heard as a
matter of simple justice"
In one of the rare instances in
Council history, Andrei A. Gromyko,
Soviet delegate, agreed with Mr..
Johnson. He spoke briefly in sup
port of polish motion to invite
the 1ndonesian Republic to the table.
johnson Speech Discussed.
The Council is slated to hear more
on the Balkans case tomorrow morn
ing at 1890 am.
Delegates still we're discussing
among themselves the strong speech
by Mr.. johnson yesterday in which
he pledged action to protect Greece
against what he described as. efforts
of Communist bands, supported by
Albania, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia to
set up totalitarian regime in
Athens.
Russia has vetoed an American
plan for semipermanent commits
sion to seek to bring order in the
Balkans. The Council failed to ap-
prove a Russian resolution calling
for withdrawal of foreign troops
from Greece and for a commission
to supervise economic aid to the
Greek people.
Now the Council is seeking some
way out Of the Balkans case ac-
ceptable to all The consensus today
was that that way is not yet ap-
parent.