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2 United Nations News: Report on the United Nations and Its Related Agencies 1 (1947)

handle is hein.unl/unnews0002 and id is 1 raw text is: United Nations News Report on the United Nations and Its Related Agencies Published monthly by the WOODROW WILSON FOUNDATION 45 East 65th Street, New York 21, N. Y. Vol. II, No. 1 January, 1947 $3.00 per year CONCLUDING ACTION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY TATE in the night of December 15, or early in the morning of December 16, after seven and a half long weeks of hard work, the Gen- eral Assembly of the United Nations ended its first session. It had dealt with over 70 agenda items, held 34 plenary sessions, 232 committee meetings, 139 subcommittee meetings, and given consideration to over 1200 documents. Though quantitative measures are never ac- curate indications of achievement, they per- haps give a sense of the scale of this town meeting of the world. The questions under consideration ranged all the way from disarmament to a proposal for translation of the classics, from the future of millions of dependent peoples to the min- utiae of U.N. internal administration. In one form or another, almost every type of question which is of concern to one or more nations was discussed, with an outspokenness that made it clear that the Member nations are determined to use the Assembly as it was de- signed to be used,-as the world's chief forum for discussion and also as the world's chief policy-making body. Under the expert leadership of its Presi- dent, M. Paul-Henri Spaak of Belgium, the General Assembly functioned with a smooth- ness that was commended by many observers. It put into operation the trusteeship system by which certain non-self-governing territor- ies will come under international supervision. It elected members to the Trusteeship Coun- cil, thus completing the organizational frame- work of the U.N. contemplated in the Char- ter. It decided on New York City for its per- manent headquarters. It admitted four new members to the United Nations,-Afghanis- tan, Iceland, Sweden and Siam. It adopted a budget and agreed upon a scale of contribu- tions to that budget. It gave final approval to the constitution of the proposed new organ- ization to deal with refugees. It recommended that an Economic Commission for Europe should be established. It took steps toward the codification of international law. It decided upon more positive action directed against the Franco regime in Spain. It set an important precedent as to what should be the dividing line between matters of international concern and matters of purely domestic jurisdiction. Most important of all, it held significant dis- cussions on the question of disarmament from which finally emerged, - after considerable debate and much give and take,-unanimous agreement on the principles to be followed in controlling and regulating armaments. In addition to agreement on these main is- sues, resolutions were passed on many impor- tant though less spectacular questions. More attention would doubtless have been given to the significance of these if they had not been overshadowed by the action taken on ques- tions vitally affecting the peace of the world. Accord on Arms Inspection Starting with widely different approaches to the problem of disarmament the members of the Assembly's Political and Security Com- mittee argued and conceded, drafted and re- drafted until finally they were able to agree unanimously on a resolution which was then Reproduction by Permission of Buffalo & Erie County Public Library Buffalo, NY

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