Evening star., 1953-03-28
Lodge Backs Efforts
OF Lie 10 Gust Reds
From Posts in U.N. I
BY the Assoeioted Press

UNI 1 ELL ma 1ONS, N. T.,
Mar. 28.-The United States
today Endorsed U. N. Secretary
General Trygve Lies campaign
to drive American Communists
cut of the U. N. secretariat.
Henry Cabot Lodge, jr., chief
United States delegate, opened
a debate on U. N. personnel
policies in the 60-nation General
Assembly with a promise that
the United States will continue
to investigate American citizens
who are on the U. N. payroll and
give Mr.. Lie the information on
which he can act to fire Sus-
pected subversives.
I'VE have no interest in know
ing whether any American in the
secretariat is Republican or
Democrat or independent, so
long as he meets the CU. NJ
Charter standards of efficiency,
competence and integrity" Mr..
Lodge told the Assembly.
However, we have an interest
in knowing whether he is a
member of a conspiracy dedi-
Gated to the forcible overthrow
of our democratic form of Gov
ernment-and undoubtedly most
of you have a similar interest.
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Mr.. Lodge said 1900 United
States employees of the U. N.
have filled out questionnaires
and are now being investigated
to give Mr.. Lie information on
which he can continue his policy.
The United States delegate op-
posed setting up any special
commission to investigate Mr..
Lies policies, as proposed by a
group of Arab-Asian countries.
Seventeen countries put them
selves on the speakers list as
the debate opened this morning.
No Soviet bloc speakers were on
the first list.
The Americans were said to
have the support of Britain.
France and some other Western
countries for a automatically
worded draft resolution which. in
effect, approves Mr.. Lies whole
personnel program as he out
lined it recently to the Assembly.
Soviet Blast Expected.
Although the Soviet stand on
the explosive issue has never
been voiced here, the Russians
and their Communist allies are
expected to lash out at Mr.. Lie.
The secretary general made an
unprecedented gloveS-off attack
on the Reds in his personnel re-
port to the Assembly last month.
He has offered his resignation
because of Soviet enmity and
will stay on the job only until
a successor is found. In his re-
port, Mr.. Lie bitterly accused
the Russians of using the crud-
est kind of presSures against
him. He said Soviet bloc nations
were the only countries refuS-
ing to cooperate with him in
recruiting employees for the U. N.
Challenge on Germ Charges.
Yesterday, the United States
challenged the Communists "in
the name of truth" to per-
NIT an impartial commission to
question all the United States
military men the Reds say have
confessed waging germ warfare
in Korea.
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paign in the 6O-nation U. N.
Political Committee, United
! States Ambassador Ernest A.
i Gross declared the germ war
4 fare accusations i against the
4 United States and the q. N.
to be a total lie"
Meanwhile, the Security Coun-
Gil made another try at finding
successor TO Mr.. Lie, but gave
up for now after an inconclu-
sive hour-long meeting.
New Chief Soviet Delegate An
drei Y. ViShinsky did not show up
for the session but some hope was
expressed that he would appear
Monday. It was hoped he would
bring new instructions from
Prime Minister Malenkov's gov
ernment.
Mr.. Gross spent a large part Of
a Commute speech in the Politi-
cal Committee mailing down the
alleged confessions Of United
States Marine Col. F. H. Schwa-
BILE and Maj. r. H. Bley. He read
statements from their superior
officers denying that bacterial
warfare ever had been ordered
and quoted one of them, Maj.
Gen. Clayton C. jerome, as say
ing Its damn lie and I would
| like to go up to the y. N. and tell
them so under OATH" Mr.. Gross
also read a denial from Gen.
Omar Bradley, chairman Of the
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