PERMANENT HOME FOR U.N.O

Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5279, 16 December 1946, Page 5

PERMANENT HOME FOR U.N.O

(Press Assn.-

INSPECTION OF ARMS BEVIN IS SATISFIED 'WITH RESULTS

—Rec. 9.30 p.m.)

NEW YORK, Dec. 14. The permanent home of the United Nations is to be in New York. The final choice was made by the General Assembly, when the offer of Mr John D. Rockefeller, jnr., to provide £2,000,000 to buy a site in.the eity's crowded East Side was accepted. The General Assembly carried by aeclamation the resolution urging a general reduetion of armaments, ineludlng atomic weapons and other weapons of mass destruetion. Mr. Bevin, on boarding the Queen Elizabeth for home, commented: "It has been a very good eonfei-ence." M. Molotov is also travelling by the Queen Elizabeth. Senator T. Connally, who is back in Washington witk Mr. Byrnes, expressed satisfaetion with the discussion on disarmament. The Security Councii now has the' task of working out a system of international control and inspection. In the terms of the Assembly's resolution, these will include . prohibition of atomic weapons and other agents of mass destruetion. At the same time the Atomic Energy Committee is now out to fmish its work. The work of the Security Councii will in due course come before a special sub-committee of the General Assemb.ly. The Security Councii has to decide what information member States should furnish for disarmament plans." The General Assembly has turned down the claim by South Africa to incorporate the mandated territory of South- West Africa into the Union. It has asked South Africa to prepare a trusteeship agreement. The Assembly has formally set up a Trusteeship Councii, the last chief organ of the United States to come into being. It is to be called together not later than Mareh 15. Before the Assembly adjourned it approved a plan for a world conference on the freedom of the Press and the setting up of a world health organisation. Delegates had hoped to tinish last night, but they have to meet again to-day to deal with a nuiuber of questions, including whether the next General Assembly will be held in New York.