Evening star., 1960-05-19
HommorskjoId Urges
CooIine-Off Via U. N.


UNITED NATIONS. N. Y,
May 10 (AP)-Dag Ham
marskjold today urged both
East and West to make all
possible use Of the United Ma
tions to spare the world from
a prolonged cold war crisis.
The U. N. Secretary General
made the appeal as the Secur-
ity Council prepared to meet,
probably Monday, to take up a
Soviet charge that United
States spy plane flights con-
stitute a threat to world peace.
Soviet Foreign Minister An
drei A. Gromyko is due here
tomorrow night to take per-
sonal command of the Soviet
campaign to brand the United
States an aggressor because Of
the U-2 incident.
United States Ambassador
Henry Cabot Lodge will confer
with President Eisenhower in
Washington over the week end
on the Presidents plan to have
the United Nations take over
aerial surveillapce to guard
against the threat of surprise
attack.
Mr.. Hammarskjold told a
news conference:
II hope that all member ma
tions, big powers and others
alike, will use the potentialities
offered by the United Nations
and its organs to the full in
order to overcome a setback
which otherwise might threaten
to tie us down for a long time
ahead"
Pledges Quick Response
He pledged that the United
Nations will respond quickly to
all requests for assistance.
Mr.. Hammarskjold expressed
regret at the breakup of the
summit conference in Paris,
but declared that the problems
which were to be taken up
there remain with us and re-
quire as much of our honest
efforts as ever.
They deserve our earnest
attention. And they require
renewed initiative toward a
solution-initiative that should
be wiser for what has gone
before, not envenomed by the
feelings to which recent events
may have given rise"
In response to a question he
said he believes in a risk of
war by accident, because no.
body in the present world with
open eyes goes to war"
He said an accident or Incl
dent was infinitely more likely
in a heated atmosphere and
that the al moi the U. N. must
be to reduce temperatures so
there is less danger of an ac-
cident starting a war.
GrOmykO Sends Word
Soviet Delegate Arkady A.
Sobolev told newsmen today
that Mr.. Gromyko had sent
advance word of his arrival
from Paris. The Soviet AM
bassador said the Soviet Union
would submit a resolution at
the first meeting of the
Security Council.
In requesting the meeting,
Mr.. Gromyko demanded that
the 11-nation council take
measures to stop the spy flights.
He cabled the request from
Paris last night after the sum-
NIT conference broke down.
The dour Communist diplomat
is a veteran of cold-war wran-
Cling at the U. N.
The Russians charged the
United States Air Force with
aggressive flights against the
Soviet Union, creating a threat
to universay peace.
Mr.. Sobolev met today with
Mr.. Hammarskjold and said
his delegation had not yet set
a specific date for the Council
session. But in any event the
Russians got the jump on a
United States proposal for in
ternational aerial inspection
against surprise attack.
Seek Earlier Meeting
Sir Claude Corea of Ceylon,
council president for May, told
a newsman he would decide to-
day when to schedule the
A Council delegate said the
Russians wanted the meeting
tomorrow or Saturday, obvi-
ously to hold the propaganda
stage without competition from
the open skies proposal Presi-
dent Eisenhower said the
United States would submit to
the U. N. But it appeared un-
likely a meeting would be ar
ranged before Monday.
Sources in a position to know
said the United States made no
effort to beat Russia to the
punch before the U. N. These
sources said the United States
.