Evening star., 1954-09-22
A-4 THE EVENING STAR
~4 Washington. .. G.
wEDNESDAY. sEPTEMBkR 22, 1854
Ninth u. n. Session
Elects Chairmen;
China Issue SheIyed
BY the Asseeiassd Pres.

UNITED NATIONS, N. Y,
Sept. 22.-The u. N. General AS
sembly quickly organized for its
ninth session today and prepared
to plunge into its general debate
on the world situation.
Secretary of State Dulles for
mally requested the floor for the
opening round tomorrow when
he will range over the whole field
Of international problems.
It was understood, however, he
would deal at length with Pres
ident Eisenhower's proposal for
an atomic pool for peaceful pur-
poses.
Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister
Andrei Y. Vishinsky has not yet
indicated when he will deliver
Russia's policy declaration.
Committee Chairmen Named. =
The delegates Of the 50 MEM
Der nations spent this morning
electing chairrnen OF the as
sembly's seven committees and
choosing seven vice presidents.
Those elected committee chair.
men are: Political--Francisco
Urrutia of Colombia: Special Po-
litical-Thor Thors of Iceland:
Economic-Sir Douglas COPELAND,
Australia: Social - Jiri Nosek,
Czechoslovakia; Truste eship-
Rafik Asha. Syria; Budgetary
and Administrative-Pote Sara
sin. Thailand: Legal-Francisco
Garcia Amador. Cuba.
The seven vice presidents are
the heads of the delegations of
the United States. Russia, Brit
ain, France. China, Burma and
Ecuador.
The committee chairman and
the vice presidents, together
with the Assembly president, DR..
Eelco N. Van Kleffens Of The
Netherlands. make up the AS
sembly's steering committee. The
committee was summoned for a
meeting this afternoon to con-
slider the AsSembly's agenda..
Red China Issue Shelyed.
Yesterdays opening meeting
was devoted to the election OF
DR.. Van Kleffens and to debate
on the proposed seating Of Red
China. The Assembly disposed
of this issue by deciding to
shelye it for the remainder Of
this year.
The resolution putting of ac-
tion on Russia's proposal to seat
Red China was proposed yes
terday by the United States. The
Assembly adopted it. 43-11. al
most duplicating last years 44-10
ballot. 1t was the third straight
year the Assembly has taken.
such action. &
Mr.. Vishinsky had intro
duced a resolution to have the.
Assembly say it considers 1T
necessary that the representative
of the Chinese Peoples Republic,
appointed by the Central Peo-
Piles Government, should take
the rightful seat of China in the
General Assembly and in other
organs of the United Nations"
Mr.. Vishinsky held that the
U. N. would be hampered other
wise, and that the Peiping gov
ernment had shown itself to be
peace-loving at the General Con-
ference and in Premier Chou En-
lai's June talks with India and
Burma. The Soviet diplomat
called it intolerable that the
"Kuomintang group" as he
termed Chang Kai-shek's rep
resentatives. held Chinas' place
In the u. N.
Lodge Makes Answer.
Henry Cabot Lodge, jr., United
States permanent representative
to the U. N, replied while Secre-
tary of State Dulles listened.
Mr.. Lodge moved that the
assembly decide not to consider
at this 1854 session "any pro-
posals to exclude representa-
tives of the government Of the
Republic Of China or to seat
representatives Of the Central
Peoples Government"
Then the American moved
that the Assembly vote on his
proposal before Mr.. Vishinsky's,
q motion approved 45-7.
In the debate preceding the
final vote on the China issue.
Poland. Burma. CZechoslovakia
and Yugoslavia spoke in favor
of Mr.. Vishinsky's position, and
Nationalist China and Australia
against it.
Britain, which recognizes
Peiping. supported the United
States bid to shelve the issue.
The British held that to argue
the question now would put too
much strain on the U. N.
In tine vote on the American
resolution, Denmark switched
her affirmative vote of last year
to join Norway, Sweden. Burma,
India. Yugoslavia and the five
Soviet bloc states-the Soviet
Union, Soviet Ukraine, White
Russie, Czechoslovakia and Po-
land-in the mo" column.
Five Nations Abstain.
Five nations abstained-Af-
ehanistan. Egypt. Indonesia.
Saudi Arabia, Syria and Ye-
men.
With that over, the delegates
fled to the front Of the hall for
the secret ballot. without nomi-
nations. for the new president.
The tally gave IS votes to DR..
Van Kletfens, 3 to Prince Wan
Waithayakon Of Thailand. and
IL abstentions. Both DR.. Van
Kleffens and Prince Wan had
campaigned for the Office. but