Evening star., 1949-10-23
Soviet Satellites
Violating Rights,
Assembly Finds
U. N. Votes to Request
International Court
For Advice on Pocts
BY the Associated Press

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United Nations Assembly agreed
today with Western accusations
that three Russian satellites in
Eastern Europe are suppressing
human rights and freedoms. 1t
asked the International Court of
Justice for advice.
The Assembly vote was At to S.
Over bitter Russian bloc objec-
tions, the Assembly chose to ask
the international court for a rul-
ing whether Bulgaria, Romania
and Hungary must comply with
peace treaties in settling the ques-
tion.
The Cominform bloc fought to
keep the charges out of the United
Nations ever since the questions
first were raised after trials of
Josef Cardinal Mindszenty in
Budapest and of religious leaders
in Bulgaria early this year.
Ukrainian Makes Attack.
But it lost after discriminate
attack today by the Soviet Ukraine
Foreign Minister, Dmitri z. Man.
uilsky. He said that human rights
violations were to be looked for
lin the Latin American countries,
in Australia. in the countries that
threaten the atom bomb war, and
in the countries that have lynch
law and Jim Crow" He said hu-
man rights are violated every day
in the United States.
He charged that the accusa-
tions by the United States and
Britain against the three coun-
tries he defended were "gross
fabrications and SANDERS"
Australia was another accuser.
Latin American nations. strongly
Catholic, gave powerful support
to the charges.
The Soviet Union, the Ukraine,
Poland, Czechoslovakia and White
Russia voted solidly against it.
Seven countries abstained on
the final vote. They were Israel,
Pakistan, India, Yugoslavia, Yem-
ZEN. Saudi Arabia and Afghanis-
tan.
Yugoslavs Make Charges.
Yugoslayia. one-time Soviet
bloc member and now a bitter
enemy Of the entire cominform
group. announced at the outset
that it would abstain because it
considered the three accused
countries guilty of other peace
treaty violations.
The secretary-general's Office
Is expected to dispatch the As
sembly's decision to the Interna-
tional Court at The Hague during
the coming week end. When the
court will take it up is indefinite.
But the adopted resolution also
insured that the question will be
kept alive on the program of the
fifth U. N. session in 1850 so that
moral club hangs over the heads
of the accused nations, all of
whom have applied for member
ship in the U.N.
The resolution agreed that
human rights were being violated
in the three countries and said
this struck not only at the peace
treaties with those former enemy
countries but also at guarantees
of human rights and fundamental
freedoms insured in the U. N.
Charter.
Ruling on Dispute Asked.
Framed in legal language, the
resolution asked the International
Court to rule whether the three
accused countries are involved in
a dispute over the human rights
provisions Of the treaties.
If the court rules a dispute
exists, then it asks the court to
rule further whether they must
follow treaty provisions to settle
the dispute.
So far. the three countries have
denied the charges. have asserted
the peace treaties are not being
violated, and have refused to send
representatives to the U.N. to
answer the charges.
In all this. they have been
strenously defended by Russia's
Foreign Minister Andrei Y. VII
shinsky and the Slav bloc spokes-
men. who uphold the denials that
the satellites are violating any
treaties or guarantees.
Mr.. Vishinsky and others
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