Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-06-05
Small u. N. Members
Level Fire at Big Five
Report on World Army
BY the Asseeiessd Press

Report on World Army.
BY The Asseeieisd Press
LAKE SUCCESS, June 5.-TheI
small countries on the United
Nations Security Council today
leveled their fire at a Big Five
report on organization OF q
global police force.
Belgium led OF the criticism. at
the opening OF general debate yes
terday. charging that the major
powers were making plans only to
stop certain categories of wars" and
offering no provisions to block ag-'
erosion by big nation.
Australia was ready to take up
the fight on resumption of discus
sions tomorrow. At that time Col.
w. r. Hodgson said he would brand
the whole report vague and made
quate and charge that the 81 small
countries in the u. N. had been
ignored entirely in drafting the basic
program.
Big s Divided on Plans.
Meanwhile, the Big Five itself
was divided over plans for establish
ing the international army, with
Russia standing alone against the
United States, Britain, France and
China on more than a third Of the
basic principles.
The report was drafted after Is
months Of secret deliberations by
the Military staff Committee, which
comprises admirals and generals
representing the chiefs OF staff of
the fiye great powers. Its accept
ance would be the first step toward
conclusion OF individual agreements
with U. N member nations whereby
they would provide land, sea and air
eontingents for an international
force.
Fernand van Langenhove Of Bel
GUM noted that use of such forces
would be subject to veto in the Coun-
ell and he said the committee there
fore had held that it was not neces-
sary to envisage use Of the forces
Gin the ease of a new world war In
volving the great powers"
He commended specifically that the
committee failed to provide for use
Of the forces In the case of threat
to peace, q breach Of peace or an act
Of aggression when these were d.
rectly or indirectly committed by
great power"
johnson Asks Full Debate.
The Belgian delegate said the
q. N. thus would be unprepared TO
prevent or stop any major dis
turbance.
The Belgian took the floor after
American Deputy Delegate Herschel
v. johnson called for full and pub
lie examination and debate" on the
report and urged the Council to
reach decision by the General AS
sembly's September meeting.
Mr.. johnson reiterated the Ameri-
can position on the three top issues
splitting Russia and the western
countries. These were bases, with
drawal Of troops and equality of
contingents.
Russia contended in dissenting on
the report that the U. N. charter
made no provision for members to
supply bases. Mr.. johnson COM
mented on this point:
IF the United Nations armed
forces are to be effective at all, the
member nations must make avail
able a system Of bases in various
parts of the world from which they
could operate"
johnson Answers Soviet.
On the Soviet Unions insistence
that contingents assigned to the
y. N. return to their home countries
within 90 days after an emergency
and not to any outlying locations,
Mr.. johnson said:
I'VE are seeking to provide ar
rangements under which the Coun-
Gil could bring its forces to bear in
the shortest possible time. Contin-
gents OF the member nations will
normally be maintained, as they are
at the present time, in various parts
Of the world.
This natural advantage accruing
to the United Nations should be
seized on and not limited by arti-
fcial restrictions on the location OF
the contingents."
Russia insists that members make
Identical contributions to the U. N.
forces (same number Of planes, bat
tleships, troops, etc., contending
that any other system would give
some countries advantages.
OF this, Mr.. johnson cited the
need for mobile force able to
strike quickly and said the peace
agency should take advantage of
certain nations having such forces
ready to use.
The interest of the United Ma
lions as a whole must take prec-
edence over the desires or ambi-
tons OF a single nation" he de-
clared.
The United States warned yester-
day that an atomic arms race Is on
and charged that system of atomic
control advocated by Soviet Russia
would be fraud on the peoples of
the world" !
The United States said, further
more, that such system would
breed antagonism, distrust and sus-
picion and increase the danger of
atomic war.
Frederick H. Osborn, American
deputy on the United Nations
Atomic Energy Commission, made
it clear that his country would
exert every effort to maintain its
ranking position on atomic arma-
ments until satisfactory interna-
tional controls were agreed on by
the countries of the world.
He said large atomic operations
were going on in Canada, England