U.N. HANDLING OF SUEZ CRISIS

Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28258, 22 April 1957, Page 15

U.N. HANDLING OF SUEZ CRISIS

Criticism By P. And 0. Chairman (N.Z. Press Association Copyright) rp, . . LONDON, April 19. The chairman of the P. and O shipping company, Sir William Currie, said yesterday that shipP m ?. owners had no confidence in the United Nations handling o' the Suez problems. He told the company’s annual meeting m London: “It is deplorable that the fortunes of this great country and its shipping snoirid have been in thp hands of the United Nations, a majority of whose members have forgotten that the original aggression was committed by the Egyptian Government on July 26 by the illegal seizure of assets in clear breach of and agreements. “I am afraid we in shipping have no confidence in the handling of these problems by the United Nations,” he said. Sir William Currie added that for many they had been “regaled with moral platitudes and mental gymnastics which had been helpful only to the original aggressor. “The United Nations is no substitute for this country’s foreign policy, and one hopes we will never again have to face the humiliation of these last few months,” he added. “There can be no confidence in the future in the administration of the canal unless it is responsible to an international body on which the users will be strongly represented,” he said. “This highway of international trade between East and West must never lie in the unfettered control of one government.”