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POLITICAL COMMITTEE DEBATE ON REFORM OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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Lake Success, October 16.

The General Assembly's Political Committes reconvened today after a wook- and adjournment to consider the revised draft of the seven-power re- solution' on strongthening the powers of the General Assembly. General debate on the proposal ended last Friday and the 60- nation group began consideration of revisions. In addition to the revised joint text, which includes the Chilean provision for observance of human rights and enforcement of measures for the development of under- developed areas, the Committee has to consider a joint Syrian-Iraqi resolution. This calls on the United States, Britain, France and the Soviet Union to meat during the current session of the Assembly to discuss afresh outstanding world problems and report back on November 15. Sponsors of the seven-power Another amendment mentioned could take any direct action. He draft rejected this proposal, by Mr. Dulles was the faculty approved of the provision for but Faris el Khouri of Syria given to a minimum of seven enlling the Assembly into session aid before the meeting that members of the Security Council on 24 hours notice. The Commit-

to ask

convocation of tee then adjourned at 1800 GMT the two delegations would

special session of the General As- until 2000 GMT. press their resolution notwith-sembly on 24 hours' notice by a standing this rejection.

vote in the Council. The original draft gave that power to seven Also before the Committee were members of the Council meeting wo Sovict resolutions calling for outside

the

Council and the onsultations of the

the Big Five change was introduced after much

crea-criticism was heard. oreign Ministers and the on of a United Nations armed ፐሮ

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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1950.

Government

to be kept

on its toes

London, October 10, Premier Clement Attien's Labour Government will ba kept on its toes during the closing days of the present" Parliamentary session which resumes tomorrow after the summer recess.

On Wednesday, the Coma mon will debate the second annual report of the British Transport Committee which last year operated the Gtatu- owned rall and road services at a loss of £20,800,000.

The Conservatives, In sharp mesult on the Govern» ment will 'arque that there has been inefficiency and that costs. faras and freight charges have rison excos- sively,

The session, which opened after the February General Election, will and on October 20. Fiva days later the House of Commons will mast again in the rebuilt Cham ber-for a new sesalon-Reu- tor.

Soviet control over Sinkiang

Cairo, October 16. Russian Communists six months ago were reported to be digging uranium and training a "peo- plo's army" in isolated Sinkiang Provinĉo, in the heart of Asia,

Their number in the strategic province, possible base of aggression against Tibet, India and Afghanistan, was estimated at 400,000 last April.

This was disclosed by A Turkestan Moslem religious leader, who based his. Infor- mation on a letter received from a former,Sinklang off- clal who fled the Province last March.

The religious leader is All Sayed Nour Mohamed Ismail. leader of the Turkestan Mission to Al Azhar, Cairo's 1,000-year- old Morlern University.

It was Ismail who disclosed, ini June 1949, that Russia had been conducting a great anti-Moslem purge in the Middle Asian Soviet

area.

Ismall identified the formeTM «O»««« | Sinklang olietal as 1850 Bey, a former member of Slakiang's

draft resolution of the provision for calling the Assembly Into emergency session.

Ave-man governing Council,

Ismall told the Associated Press Issa Bey wrote him from Srinagar, Kashmir, on April 5, 1950;

ELECTION IN EAST GERMANY

!

Berlin, ́October 10.

The East German Ministry of the Interior reported that by 8.00 a.m. today 12,088,743 af- firmative votes and 35,544 op- pasing votes had been counte int the Soviet Zone genera clection.

The East German news agency. ADN, gave these figures;

Total electorate-12,331,005, Votes cast-12,139,032 (or 98.44

cent).

The Arst afternoon speaker was Sir Frank Soskice of Britain, who said Britain attached the greatest Importance to whether the new proposals were strictly within the terms of the Charter.

M. Maurice Schuman (France) "You may have good intentions, "We believe supported Section A, then Mr. Dulles said:

Mr. but, gentlemen, the road to hell Sajdl under provisions of the any filibuster in the Council will Vavro

(Czechoslovakia) is paved with good intentions. Do nited Nations Charter.

be adequately met by procedure charged this section illegal. Mr. not take that road. Do not walk now in the resolution."

Joseph Aboukater (Lebanon) on that pavement. You must act asked the sponsors of the seven- as is required by the law

"Despite our Counell's oppost-didates-12,088.745, and tion, the Chinese Military Com- power resolution to reconsider constitution, an elementary demandant of Sinklang turned over their Saturday decision to exclude cency." his

.

The first speaker today was nor Hernan Santa Cruz (Chile). 10 announced that Chile

thdrawn its separate resolution hich, aside from human rights economic provisiozu, contain-

•

Russian exports

the province to the Chinese Reds without resistance, last September (1949). But the Chinese Reds rule the province in name

"Four hundred

star

left the country.

per

Valid votes--12,124,289, Invalid votes-15,0-13.

Votes for Regional Front con-

Opposition votes 35,544.

On the ballot papers was the single list of candidates of the Communist-led National Front.

two

Objection to interpretation

country's amendment which He opposed the proposal that called on United Nations troops the

Whatever the final results, a proposal fur a pact of demo- Senor Enrique Ugon (Uruguay), to enforce decisions of the Assem-ms Assembly decide by simple majority to call a special session,

which are not expected before tic nations and granting of who spoke next, took exception bly.

saying this should be done by a

འབ Mr. Mohamed Fadhil at Jamall two-thirds majority. He also had

Saturday, they Rulä

cannot change to the legal interpretation made pecial powers to the Assembly's

of the new Interim Committee. Senor Santa tast week by Mr. Vyshinsky (Iraq) and Farls el Khouri Beybl

Velkshammer, or People's Parlin- Cruz said, however, that the idea concerning the faculty of the As- (Syria) then followed, asiding the objections to 24 hours' notice for the time I left come in up to the composition

the calling of special sessions and two hundred thousand, led by ment, which was settled of n pact must be discussed at asembly to meet when the Council Committee to consider their pro- said if the matter were important scientists, mining experts and ninths ago by an agreement be- Inter stage. He then pledged sup-wus

paralysed. Mr. Vyshinsky posal for the Big Four Foreign enough there should be plenty of mineralogists, organiscul the ex-tween the Communist bloc par- port for the revised draft.

argument which Ministers to consult together and time to study evidence and re- misquoted an

tion of traction the

uranium and gold, ties Senor Victor Andres Belaunde

would be in support of report lo otherwise

Assembly

next Senor Franisco

ore month.

The biggest

deposits arc of Peru praised the revised draft the seven-power draft.

The Socialist United Party will Ichaso ports.

"Sometimes there is machine-around Cherchen, in South Cen-have 100 seats, the National De- the section said he would bring up his

supported Dr. Ales Bebler (Yugoslavia) (Cuba)

gun diplomacy," he said.. On tral Sinklang.

mocratic Party, Farmer's Party amendment concerning the Im-sald the sponsors did not quite under consideration,

June 12, these gentlemen in the

and other satellites 180 among portance of maintenance of peace, well understand his amendment

Security Council, without bearing

them and the Christian Demo- by means' provided under existing on inclusion of the words "acts of

from North Korea, found them-

crals and Liberal Democrats 30 treaties,

the when

crais selves to be connivers in deter-

each, preamble was discussed.

mining aggression In Koroa. You acted very rapidly and still. apparently, aggression succeeded and now is on its way past the 38th Parallel."

aut

resolution's

ERICSSOT of the words "breachi

Yugoslavia wanted

Mr. G. P. Jooste of South of the peace" by "acts of aggres-floor for a lengthy intervention. Africa said. the new draft con-slon" because the former did not tained many new propositions and completely cover the concept of principles which must be recog-aggression. However, he accepted |

ised by governments.

the revised draft.

It would be difficult for him to rote on any part of the resolu- lons at this stage. The revised draft was an Improvement over he old text but he needed new instructions.

(the Mr. A. M. Baranovsky Ukraine) protested that the pro- vision for calling of the Assembly into session by a vote of seven members of the Council was ob- vious violation of the Charter and an attempt to circumvent the veto.

Controversial part

Mr. Aubrey Eban (Israel) also The Pakistani Foreign Minister, devoted most of his intervention Sir Mohammed Zafrullah Khan. to procedure for convocation of sked one of the sponsors of the the Assembly in emergency, ses- esolution to explain changes in slon. The new draft partially met he draft to the Committee and the point by allowing a decision Mr. John Foster Dulles (United to seven members at a Council tates) began explaining Section meeting, but Israel would rather of the operative part of the see the Council itself determine raft.

This section deals with lowing the General Assembly to

hen

Percy Spender, Australian Minister, said st to preserve peace and security External Affairs

the Security Council is there was no foundation to the aralysed by a veto. This is the Ukrainian claim that this manner part of the of convocation was illegal. Con- bost controversial

cument and the Soviet Unionvocation was not a question of is charged that adoption of this substance and therefore not sub- oposal would violate the Char-jeet to veto.

and wreck the United Nations. The Russian Foreign Minis- ter, Mr. Andral Vyshinsky, ac- companied by US ngual large

roup of advisers, was on hand

or the

Kr. Dulles

to one im-

*

False premise

"

Russian proposals

"Two hundred thousand other Russians are busy reorganising Sinklang's people's army." Responsible Islamic sources here tify Tamall as a non-political identify Moslem schelar

East Berlin, which did not vole, will be represented in the new Purliament by 60 delegates with an advisory role.

Sinklang province is the East- ern part of

Turkestan. Ismall said he was keeping in The highest number of opposi- close touch with refugees fromtion votes-18,200—was cast In Sinklang. In a letter dated June the relatively industrialised 12, 1956, he said, one of the 10,000 State of Thuringia, which borders people who have fled Communist on the American Zone. rule to take refuge in Tibet,

The "Yes" yo

votes totalled 1,905,- India, Fakistan and Afghanistan,

817.

Invalid votes cast here described the plight of the fugl-

the highest state! lives.

total in the poll.

West The

Berlin political spokosman said today that the under pressure, # Govern- and more

quoted his correspon-

6.087-were also

Vyshinsky attack Mr. Vyshinsky then took the

Mr. Vyshinsky began by at tacking the provision permitting the Council to call an emer gency sezaion of the Assembly by a procedural vote of seven of its members In the first place members had no right to Mr. Vyshinsky proposed: 1. determine whether a convoca- That the reference to the convoca- tory vote would be a matter of tory council vote of seven mem- procedure and therefore free of bers be deleted from the resolu- veto-because the Counoll was tion. master of its own procedure. 2. Twenty-four hours' notice on ismail "If we observe elementary recalling a session be deleted and dent, whose name he did not spect for the Security Council, we replaced by two weeks' notice. disclose, or saying the refugees East Germans, will see it is quite inadmissable. The Aasembly be permitted left all their possessions behind, for any body to decide what the when the Council is not staging and wese living in such desperate Council is to consider

a proce- the matter in question studying conditions that at least 3,000 of

question. dural and what

The final speaker,

Mr. Percyer had died from starvation. matter," he said.

Не Insisted on

on safeguarding the Spender (Australia); sald Austra-

lia was

was satisfied that the seven- integrity of the Charter article which states that the Council is power resolution was within the of the Assembly, say- to

its own rules

competence determine

of

pro- cedure. Mr. Vyshinsky, then tolding it recommended to govern~ ments action to put themselves in the Committee that it was a

.position to implement the "monk's habit, to call pork fish when he wants to eat pork during

Charter when there was a breach of peace. Lent, but you cannot turn a pig

into

#

substantive

Turning to Mr. Vyshinsky's a fish" Attempts to prede- statement, Mr. Spender said: "I termine the Council's procedure pray that something can be done violated the Charter and such an

except words and attitude could not be tolerated in by Russin

words and arguments and argu Mr. Stefan Wierblowski (Po-the Committee,

ments," land) said the whole premise that

The Committee adjourned at 2300 GMT until Tuesday morn- Ing.-United Press.

Krtant clusion of t

e words "acts of aggression" in

Usting of circumstances under the problem of preserving peace, hich the Assembly could act if Foland would have no objections

This

it is your purpose to modify the Council would be unable to the Charter, be kind enough to full its functions to preserve modify

by constitutional peace was false. If the Assembly procedures."

Russia would respect any ma- would be called similarly to study

jority decision providing it was done under law but he warned that it would respect no decisions taken outside the law.

"Put all your amendments to gether and call a constitutional you will fall to get a two-third as a recognised breach of peace Soviet Union was responsible for majority and if you do got that nd thus prevent an outbreak of lack of unanimity in the Council. you will fear that you would fall batilities. In legal language there Russ

Kussia was representing other to get the votes of the five per-

to.

change

and

e Council were paralysed by a to the seven-power proposal, but

had been made he

made he could not accept the idea of response to Israel Yugos- the

the Assembly making recommen- suggestions

the new Used Nations troops could dations for the maintenance of talled into action before there

charges that the exception to

peace.

a difference between an act of nations as well as herself when manent members of the Security gression and a breach of peace. she cast vetoes: Poland could ac- Council"

for CURRENCY

and

cept the section of the draft only

if the Soviet amendments, refus-

to

Ing the Assembly the right

Half-way

make recommendations, were ac- This was taken as meaning cepted.

Russia would veto any attempt to Sir Zafrulah Khan (Pakistan) revise the Charter if such a pro- then took the floor again to ana-posal were made of this time. lyse the section of the draft under However, Mr. Vyshinsky said he consideration and in a carefully-wanted to meet the sponsors of worded statement said the Assem-the seven-power resolution half- bly should have the power to way and was willing to concede make recommendations for keep that some of these questions ing international peace if the might be procedural. That was Council falled to do so. However, something the Council must de- he doubted whether, under the termine for itself. He then for | Charter, the 60-nation Assembly | mally proposed deletion from the

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London, October 16. British flower dealers were told today that they would be able: to import a limited number of flowers from Israel at the end of this

year.

had put into power ment more ruthless highly organised that Hitler's

regime. Nazi

At the last East German elce- tions in May, 1949, the propor- tion of "Yes" votes was 66 per cent, Four million xaters then vated against the Communist- dominated regime.--Reuter,

FAKE ELECTIONS

Bonn. -October 6.- The West German Chancellor, Dr. Konrad Adenauer, comment- The Board of Trade announced ing on the East German elections, that between December 13 and said here today: "These fake February 28 licences would be elections are nothing but a blum available to import limited quan- and a deception, titles of Israel flowers, including "The Communist Government gladioli, roses and sweet peas—showed it had a better knack at Reuter.

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