Dr. Evatt Recounts Some Achievements

Chronicle (Levin), 13 December 1948, Page 5

Dr. Evatt Recounts Some Achievements

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Received Sunday, 7 p.m. PARIS, Dec. 11; Summing up the three months' United Nations meeting, Dr. Evatt said: "Foremost among the Xs-sem-bly's achievements are the proclamation of the nniversal declaration of human rights and the submission to member Governments of an international convention to outlaw genocide. In the political field we reinforced our newly assumed eonciliation functions in Greeee and Palestine and also in the conflict between the Great Powers. At the same time United Nations assumed far-' reaching responsibilities for emergency relief .for -thousands of refugees from the Pal'estipe eombat areas. "Some major political problems remain to' be dealt with in New York in April. Foremost among them is the disposal of the former Italian colonies, another legacy from the Great Power disagreement. "The problem of voting in the Security Couiicil, the creation of a United Nations Guards and the convention on the fre.edom of information, remain to be dealt with. "At a time when there is danger of war, United Nations is the plaee to which the disagreements and> conflicts of the world should be brouglit." Tlie Associatecl Press Paris correspondent says Dr. Evatt said: "Don't sell United Nations short. You will make a great blunder if you do. Yrou have to stick to United Nations as tbat is all you liave. In one form or another all great problems are being dumped into United Nations. There is a.kind of fetish to blame United Nations for not doing anything. People say the debates are too long. I cannot- understand this. That is the essence of the democratic system. ."Far from feeling f'rustrated I. f'eel better about if." • /