Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-04
u. N.
Formosu Move Appears
Likely to Stymie PIun
To Admit 18 Nations

1IlG SLidIlkc case VI OutCI h1OA1-
golia. backward land of l million
people and 30 million livestock.
continued to plague the United
Nations last week. Nationalist
China came out Of nowhere to take
up the veto cudgel that the United
States had put down only few
days before.
AS a result, prospects looked dim
this week .end that any Of the Is
applicants for U. N. membership
would be admitted this year. The
General Assembly is scheduled to
adjourn next week end. probably
until September, 1856.
Among the nations seeking adj
mittance to the U. N. are Outer
Mongolia, four East European
! Soviet satellites and IL non-Com-
munist countries. The Soviet
Union. informed last month that
the United States was inclined to
veto Outer Mongolia. retaliated
with . promise to veto ali Is nom
Communist nations unless the
Outer Mongolians were invited to
join.
Pressure from Latin American
members, who want to see Spain
and Italy admitted. and Arab
states, who favor Ceylon. Jordan
and Libya, persuaded the United
States to back down. Ambassador
Henry Cabot Lodge said that the
United States would abstain when
Outer Mongolia's application was
put to a vote in the Security Coun-
ell. Ito gain membership. each
country first must get seven votes
IN the Security Council, without
veto by any of the five permanent
members. Then it must get a two
thirds approval in the General
Assembly,
There was hope for while that
the United Nations could now be
expanded from so nations to rs.
But the optimists reckoned without
the1Formosa government of Chang
Kai-shek, which holds veto power
along with the United States, Rus
STA. Britain and France.
Taipei told the world it would
be compelled" to veto Outer Mon
golia and could not change its
position.
The Nationalist Chinese once
recognized Outer Mongolia as
separate state, from l946 to 1858
But no diplomatic relations were
established. There was some in
formal discussion of a treaty be-
tween the two, but no formal ne
gotiations were ever undertaken.
Chang Kai-shek complied with the
letter Of his agreement with Mos
COW, as written into the Sino-
Russian treaty of 1945 and an ac-
companying note. But he never got
into the spirit.
Nationalist Chinese recognition
Of Outer Mongolia without ex-
change Of envoys) continued until
February 25, 1858, when Taipei
denounced its 1945 treaty with the
Soviet Union. Chiang's government
now claims that Outer Mongolia
ceased to be an independent state
on that date, since Nationalist
China was one of the two parties
to the instrument which originally
established it,
On this basis. Taipei does not
recognize the existence of any in
dependent state Of Outer Mongolia.
Threots for Chiono
All last week there were preSsures
in the United Nations and rumors
Of pressures against Chang to
change his mind. Newsmen at the
United Nations heard that Presi-
dent Eisenhower had sent two pleas
to Taipei asking that the veto
plans be abandoned.
Nationalist China's position
would be imperiled in three ways,
it was pointed out.
. The 20 Latin American coun-
tries, enraged that Spain and Italy
were thus barred, might collaborate
with third-force and Soviet bloc
nations to unseat the Formosa
regime in the Security Council and
General Assembly next year.
o The same combination might
move, instead. to put Red China
into the United Nations alongside
the Nationalist. Taipei has said
previously it would walk out the
moment Peiping walked in.
o Specialized agencies. which meet
at various times throughout next
year, operating under their own
rules. might y;nbstitute Red China