U.N. HAS MUCH TO-LEARN

Chronicle (Levin), 20 December 1946, Page 5

U.N. HAS MUCH TO-LEARN

Received Thursdav, 8.40 jmn. LONDON, Dee. 19. Field Marshal Smuts, broadcasting from Pretoria last night, strongly criticised the \\orkings of Eno, asserling that in recent debate? the talk was out of all propCrtirtn t'd ' tlffr resulW. '-'Tho organisation had much to learn and he liojied it would evolve a working techi«jue which would avoid much of the disiieartciiing mistakes now being made. f Field .Marshal Smuts also strongly 'criticised Fno's rejection of South Africa's jjroposal for tlie incorporation of South West Afriea in the Fnion and the deeising asking ihe South African and lndian (iovernments to rcqtort to ihe next Asseniblv on measures being taken in the treatment of Indians in South Africa. " We fouml a solid mass of jirejudice against the colour policies of South Africa which not even the most efiicient puldicity could have broken down in the time at dis])osal, " he said. "The uifiammable issues of race and colour -wept over the Assembly in a flood of emotion iormed by misehievous ju-o^ia-ganda, and created a situation which only cairn rellection can bring to reality and a projier perspeetive. " The Fnion Government, Field -Marshal Smuts said, was delermined to maintain at least the position given it under the mandate and to discharge the trust it had undertaken to the inhabilants of South West Africa and to the Fnion itself, to whose security South West Africa was essential. Ile added that besides being unfair to the Fnion concerning the Jndian Government 's complaint about the treatment of Indians in South Afriea, Fno had struck at the very fonndalions on which the organisation was eslablished under the (. -barter. Fno had assumed implicitly the Fnion 's guilt uiul denied her the most elementary nnd fundamental riglit of access to the established authoritv of The Tnternational Fourt of Justice. The last word on these matters had not yet been heard, he declared.