FRANCO REGIME IN SPAIN

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24902, 15 June 1946, Page 7

FRANCO REGIME IN SPAIN

SECURITY COUNCIL DISCUSSION REFERENCE TO ASSEMBLY SUGGESTED NEW YORK, June 13. Dr. H. V. Evatt (Australia), at the Security Council meeting, proposed that the Spanish question should be referred to the General Assembly of the United Nations. He announced that the investigating sub-committee had adopted the United States suggestion that the General Assembly should take such action as it deemed appropriate in the circumstances at the time, instead of calling for a complete break with General Franco if he were still in power in September. Dr. Evatt said that the council should recommend positive action. He declared that the United States suggestion for making the sub-commit-tee’s recommendations more flexible would not mean a diminution, of the council’s authority. The acting United States delegate (Mr Herschel Johnson) said that the United States disagreed with the original wording of the sub-commit-report because it made its recommendations to the General Assembly too specific. “My Government is not committed on any position which it will take in the General Assembly.’’ he said. M. Gromyko (Russia), speaking for the first time since the sub-commit-tee made its report, said that the subcommittee had confirmed the existence of a Fascist regime in Spain and found that it constituted a threat to peace. Therefore, the situation in Spain could not be considered a purely Spanish problem.

The council adjourned until Monday.