Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-07
.Trygve Lie Appeals
To Powers 10 Settle
Dispute in Germany
U. N. Secretary AssoiIs
U. S. and Soviet; War
StockpiIe Criticized
By the Associated Press

LAKE SUCCESS, Aug. T.
Trygve Lie appealed to the big
powers today to end their quar-
rel over Germany.
The United Nations secretary
general also called for urgent &C
ton to stop what he called race
among the great powers to develop
and stockpile lethal meteorological
and chemical weapons.
In his third annual report to the
General Assembly, Mr.. Lie placed
the German profile mat the top of a
list of issues standing In the way of
world peace.
Nothing would contribute more
to the effectiveness of the United
Nations" he said, than settle
ment of this problem
Mr.. Lie ranged over the entire
field of political, economic and So
cial problems before the U. NJ,
painting a grim picture of strife and
conflict between Russia and the
Western powers. He spared neither
the United States nor the Soviet
Union in his analysis of the U. NJ
activities during the past year.
Red Boycott Cited.
He said the United States sup
ported the Palestine partition plan
but refused to use force to carry it
out. Russia boycotted several U. N
bodies, including the Korean and
Balkan Commissions, he said.
Both cases." he said, involve
areas where the immediate interests
of the two greatest powers have re-
acted sharply upon each other"
Then Mr.. Lie said:
ct would be a grave mistake to
believe that most of the world has
any intention of accepting any sim
gle economic system, whether based
on the Communist doctrine of the
classics society or the most extreme
American capitalist version of free
enterprise system.
1T is equally unthinkable that
any one nation or group OF nations
could establish and maintain in
such a world a new empire resting
on either economic power or mill
tary might"
Mr. Lie made no specific recon-
mendations on the German problem
beyond urging the big powers to re-
sumo negotiations. He spoke of the
future status of Germany as a
whole and not merely of the Berlin
crisis.
Concerned Over Delays.
He left it up to the interested
powers to decide whether they
would turn the German problem
over to the U. NJ, but told them if
they decided to do that he wanted
it done only in the spirit of gen.
uine attempt to reach settle
ment.'
Mr.. Lie expressed grave concern
over failure of the U. N. to make
any progress on such vital problems
as atomic control, reduction of arm
aments and creation of an interna-
tional police force.
He said the prolonged debate over
atomic control has distracted at
tention from other weapons of mass
destruction such as meteorological
and chemical weapons.
Stocks of these weapons are I'M
doubtedly piling up he said, and
new discoveries are constantly be-
ing made to render them more
deadly" but mot a single proposal
has been made by any of the men,
Der nations for preventing or con-
trolling their manufacture"
For this reason, Mr.. Lie said, he
intends to place this problem be-
fore the next session of the Assem-
bly, which begins in Paris Septem-
Der 81.
Praise for ERP.
Mr.. Lie had these things to say
about other questions.
European Recovery Program
This program holds great promise
for the restoration of Western Eu-
rope to economic and polite sta
bility, but it can have lasting re-
suits only If present political divi-
sions are not permitted to block CO.
ordinated action within Europe as a
whole and an increase of trade be-
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