YUGOSLAVIA ELECTED

Chronicle (Levin), 21 October 1949, Page 5

YUGOSLAVIA ELECTED

(N.Z.P.A.-

-Reuter.

Qash In U.N.; Mr. Vyshinsky Ruled Out Of Order

Cczzriaht)

Received Friday, 9.30' a.m. NEW YORK, Oct. 20. Yugoslavia was today eleeted to the Security Couneil toy 39 votes against 19. for Czechoslovakia. India and Ecuador were eleeted to the other two seats vacant on the Couneil. Yugoslavia was- eleeted on a second ballot after a deadlock had developed in the first ballot when Yugoslavia received only 37 votes, two ' short of the minimum number required for election. Czechoslovakia received 20 votes in the first ballot. i Strode To Rostrum. I The Soviet Foreign Minister, Mr. Andrei Vyshinsky, clashed With General Carlos Romulo, president of the General Assembly, when the ballot papers were being distributed. Mr. Vyshinsky strode to the rostrum to make a technical argument that the seat fcelonged by choice of the Soviet bloc to Czechoslovakia. General Romulo quickly ruled Mr. Vyshinsky out of order. "No j campaigning for candidates is permitted from the floor before voting." Mr. Vyshinsky's charge was that "attempts are being made to distort the Soviet position in this matter in a slanderous manner." General Romulo rapped his gavel hard, but Mr. Vyshinsky increased the pitch of his voice, kept right on talking and finished his statement. Mr. Vyshinsky's Charge. Mr. Vyshinsky charged that the election of Yugoslavia would be a violation of the United Nations Charter, because it failed to take : into account the provisions re- ! garding the geographical distribu- . tion of the Couneil seats. He said: "Yugoslavia cannot and will not be considered a member of the Eastern bloc." He described the election as an attempt to turn the Security Couneil. into "the obedient tool of the AngloAmerican bloc." Britain had announced in advance that she would support Czechoslovakia, but there was no •ndication as to how she actually voted in the secret ballot. Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia were contesting for the seat now field by the Soviet Ukraine. . First Ballot Elections. India, with 56 votes, and Ecuador, with 57, were eleeted in the first ballot. India will replace Canada on the Couneil and Ecuador will succeed Argentina. After balloting was completed, Mr. Vyshinsky was given permission to speak. He said that Yugoslavia's election was "a new violation of the Charter, undermining the very basis of co-operation in the United Nations." " * ' He attacked the countries that had supported Yugoslavia and although ruled out of order for a second time, went on speaking until he had completed his remarks.