Evening star., 1949-10-20
YuoosIovio Wins Seatin Council
Over Repeated Russian Protests
On Second U.N. Assembly Ballot
Tito Gets Minimum
Needed; India and
Ecuador Also Chosen
By the Associated Press

NEW YORK, Oct. 20.-Yugo-
slavia won seat in the United
Nations Security Council today
over Soviet-sponsored Czechoslo-
vakia. The action by the 59-nation
General Assembly was a rebuff to
the Soviet bloc.
The vote on the second ballot
was Yugoslavia 80 and CZechoslo-
vakia 10. Thirty-n votes were
required for election. Yugoslavia
thus squeezed by on the minimum
number of votes needed. The vot-
ing was secret.
The United States supported
Yugoslavia for the Council seat
now held by the Soviet Ukraine.
The seating changes December 81.
On the first ballot, Marshal
Tito's regime got 81. Czechoslo-
vakia 20. Afghanistan l. Philip
pines /.
India and Ecuador were elected
on the first ballot to take the
Council seats to be vacated by
Canada and Argentina.
Vishinsky Attacks Result.
Russia's Andrei Y. Vishinsky
took the floor Immediately after
the results were announced.
Mr.. Vishinsky charged the
election of Yugoslavia was vio-
lation of the U. N. Charter be-
cause it failed, he said, to take
into account provisions regarding
geographic distribution of Coun-
Gil seats.
The West previously had con-
tended that Yugoslavia was just
as qualified to represent Eastern
Europe as Czechoslovakia.
Mr.. Vishinsky declared Yugo-
slavia's candidacy was advanced
by the United States and Britain
through behind-the-scene ma
neuvering.
Assembly President Carlos P.
Romulo banged his gavel re-
peatedly, but Mr.. Vishinsky held
the floor about four minutes.
"Yugoslavia cannot and will not
be considered a member Of the
Eastern bloc" Mr.. Vishinsky said.
He described the election as IAN
attempt to turn the Security
Council into an obedient tool Of
the Anglo-American bloc"
Britain Favored Czechs.
Britain had announced in ad-
vance that she would support
Czechoslovakia, but there was no
indication how she actually voted.
British Delegate Barbara Castle
was told outside the Assembly hall
that Yugoslavia had won. She
winked her eye and said:
Our Yugoslav friends will be
very. very pleased"
She refused to say. however,
whether Britain had switched
from Czechoslovakia to Yugoslavia
on the second ballot.
Yugoslavia had been confident
before the vote that she would
win not later than the second bal
lot. The Yugoslav delegates ar
rived at the Assembly hall in
jovial mood.
One Yugoslav delegate re-
marked: Its fine day. 1t should
bring out the farm vote"
Vishinsky Defies Romulo.
Mr.. Vishinsky spoke before the
balloting to attack Yugoslavia's
candidacy.
Ballots were being distributed
when Mr.. Vishinsky demanded
the floor. He strode to the ros-
trum to make a technical argu-
ment that the seat belongs to
Czechoslovakia by choice of the
Soviet bloc.
Gen. Romulo quickly made his
ruling that MI. Vishinsky was out
of order. No Campaigning for
candidates is permitted from the
floor before the voting.
Mr.. Vishinsky's charge was:
"Attempts are being made to dis
tort the Soviet position in this
matter in a slanderous manner"
Gen. Romulo raped his gavel
hard, but Vishinsky kept right on
talking, increasing the pitch of
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