Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-11-13
u. n. toDebate
Hungary Crisis
Despite Soviet
15-Notion Committee
Votes for Assembly
Priority on Issue

IVY. 40 NJ'-GCSplIt OOVleG o.
Ijections, the United Nations
powerful steering committee
cleared the way today for pri-
lority debate on the Hungarian
situation in the regular session
Of the General Assembly.
The 15-nation com mittee
voted. IL to 2, to place the Hun
garian problem on the agenda
of the Assembly so it can follow
up the action taken in the re-
cent emergency Assembly. Only
the Soviet Union and Czecho-
Islovakia voted against the de-
bate. Egypt abStained.
The steering committee rec
commended unanimously that
the Middle East problem be
placed on the 79-nation Assem-
bly'S agenda.
| The Assembly itself was ex-
lpected to act quickly to approve
the committees recommended
tions.
Warning by Soviet Deputy
The decision on the Hungarian
issue came after Soviet Deputy
Foreign Minister VASTLY v. Kuz-
netsov had warned that con-
tinued U. N debate will COM
plicate efforts to re-establish
peace" in Hungary.
| The committee quickly rejected
a Soviet move to have the Hun
garian delegate invited to take
part in the procedural discussion.
| United States Delegate Henry
Cabot Lodge, jr.. declared that
the situation in Hungary is "of
utmost urgency-all the more so
since the present Hungarian au-
thoritieS have now announced
their rejection of almost all the
Recommendations of the emer-
gency session."
Mr.. Lodge referred to a mes
sage received last night from the
puppet Hungarian government
refusing to permit U. N. observers
to enter Hungary in accordance
with resolution adopted by the
emergency assembly.
Meanwhile" Mr.. Lodge said,
"the repression continues and
the situation is as heartbreaking
as ever. We must search for
every appropriate means to as
sist them and resist this dark
and bloody and sinister influ-
ence there"
Called Internal Affair
Istvan Sebes. acting foreign
minister of Hungary's Russian
installed government, notified
Secretary General Dag Ham
marskjold that the Hungarian
situation was purely an internal
affair. The sending of U. N. OBJ
servers was mot warranted" he
declared.
/ Mr.. Sebes said Soviet troops
were sent into Hungary because
his government had asked for
them. He added that Hungar-
ian authorities were quite cap
able of making their own deci-
sion on holding elections.
This rebuffed decisions by the
emergency Assembly to ask Rus
STA to pull her troops out Of
Hungary and to call for free
elections in the satellite.
4 Rushes Organization
4 The Assembly, faced with 70
items for debate, rushed through
the business of organization yes
terday. In slightly more than
two hours it elected a president,
named seven committee chair
men and appointed seven vice
presidents.
( 1t also elected to membership
three new African countries al
ready approved by the Security
Council-Tmisia, Morocco and
Sudan.
Prince Wan Waithayakon.
Thailand's Foreign Minister and
ia o. N. veteran, was elected
Assembly president.
The annual general debate, in
which each government outlines
its views on major world issues,
is expected to get under way
tomorrow with Herbert Hoover
jr., Acting Secretary of State.
speaking for the United States.
+ Soviet Foreign Minister Dmi-
tri Shepilov is to take the floor
Thursday.