INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS PANEL WEEKLY SUMMARY NO. 3 FOR WEEK ENDING 1 JUNE 1948

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• Publication Date: June 1, 1948
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INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS PANEL
YIEEKLY SUMMARY NO-, 3
For week ending 1 June 1948
New Palestlas_mapaRq. FolloWing rejection of a Soviet
plan for a cease fire order similar to the one previously
proposed by the US for 'aCtion under Chapter VII of the UN
Charter, the Security Council on 29 May adonted an amended UK
resolution calling for u four-weeks cease ? fire agreement to
permit resumption of conciliation between Arabs and Jews.
Despite the fact the reSolution is generally regarded as.
favoring the Arabs, the 1 June deadline has already been met
by the Jews who accepted unconditionally, advancing, however,
their own interpretation of its terms. Word has not yet come
from the Arabs. In case either party fails to respond favor-
ably, the resolution provides that sterner measures under
Chapter VII may be taken under consideration.
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ICJ rules on UN- Charter. First decision of the new world
court -- the International Court of Justice (ICJ) -- brought
some encouragement to the small UV nations who have consistently
disputed the right of the five Great Powers tc use their veto
on membership applications. The decision resulted from a
Belgian proposal adopted by the General Assembly last November
calling for an advisory opinion on membership qualifications.
This resolution followed a series or Soviet vetoes on Italy,
Tranejordan, Eire, Portugal .and Finland together with a
proposition to condition italy,s admission on the simultaneous
approval of the -Balkan satellites.
The Court decided 9 (Belgium, Brazil, Chile, China, Egypt,
El Salvador, Nexico, Norway and the US) to 6 (Canada, France,
-Poland, UK, USSR and Yugoslavia) that UN members had no right
to go beyond the simple Charter qualifications in passing OR
membership applications. These Qualifications were enumerated:
the applicant must be a state, must be peace-loving, must
accept Charter obligations and must be able and willing to carry
out these obligations. The votes, in the western group at least,
followed no political-ideological linen,
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Tho immediate soviet response to this obvious rebuke
was a reiteration of its familiar tenet that. the Court is not
a superior body and kma no right to interpret the Charter.
The. Soviet concept of international law is. confined to
ordinary treaties into which the USSR voluntarily enters;
reserving to itself their interpretation. USSR delegate
Gromyko further stated the decision "made no difference" --
a truism in the sense that no advisory opinion has binding
effect. Historically, Aolsever, the opinlon is important since
it represents 1) the I03's first decision (not., holevever, its
first case, the Corfu Channel dispute having been referred to
it early in 1947) and 2) the first instance of an international
i:dbunal's pronouncement on the Charter of an international
organization. 1
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Ch.p,e places diuu!-,e with USSR before UN. Chile's UN
delegate Santa Cruz hasplaced on the agenda of the net
General AE,:sembly (GA), a dispute over the USSR's refusal to
permit the Chilean Ambassador's Soviet daughter-in-law to
leave the country. Santa Cruz termed the Soviet attitude a
violation of human rights involving danger to peaceful
relations bet4een states. His Govornment, meanwhile, will
permit Its Ambassador and his son to leave their post .it'lout
the son's wife, simultaneously liberating the presently
Interned Soviet mission in F.antiago.
The Chilean delegation originally considered bringing the
mutter before the UN interim Committee (IC). The, USSR is not
a member of the IC having denounced as illegal the creation
of that body last fall subsequently maintaining its refusal to
participate. In view of this fact, the US delegation informed
Santa Cruz it could not support any proposal adding the matter
to the IC agenda. The State Department vied such a course
as a threat both to the case and to the IC since the absence
of the USSR of necessity would "mar the cogency" of the IC
report to the GA. The US had no objection to placing the
matter on the regular GA agenda however.
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