La seance es
CENT-QUAR
SEANCE
Tenue au Pala
le samedi 25 septe
President: M. H
21. Repr esen tatio n of the Gene ral Assemb ly at the fune ral of Coun t
Bern adot te
Le PRESIDENT est c
hation unanime de
charge le Secretaire
aux ohseques du co
lieu demain a Stock
quitte Paris aUjour
22. Cont inua tion of the gene ral deba te 22. Suite de
M-' PANDIT (Inde
Mrs. PANDIT (India) declared that it was a
que toute la delega
matter of satisfaction to her delegation that the
actuelIe de l'Assem
present session of the General Assembly was being
held in Paris. India had received much inspira- Paris. L'Inde a s
France. Dans sa lu
tion from France. India's struggle for freedom,
its thought and ideals had been inRuenced by pensee, dans ses ide
de la France. Le p
France. The Indian people had loved France and
la France et ce qu'
what it had stood for; they had been fieved
pendant la periode
during the unhappy period when France s freela liberte en France
dom bad suffered a temporary eclipse; and they
et se rejouit que
rejoiced that France had again taken its rightful
monde la place a
place in the world.
Les trois annees
The three years that had passed since the creation de I'Organisa
tion of the United Nations had not been easy
pas ete faciles. La
ones. The peace which had emerged from the
leurs d'une longue
travail of a lengthy war was an uneasy peace
taine et la crainte
and apprehensions of another war already threatdeja l'hwnanite. P
ened mankind. During that period the United
nisation des Nati
Natio~s had been faced with many grave problems,
maints graves prob
and It would be a dangerous self-delusion to
dangereuse que de
say that they had heen tackled successfully. But
des avec succes. M
the lack of suecess had not been due to any lack
dfi a un manque d
of courage or entreprise on the part of the Uniprise de la part d
ted Nations. The mistakes made were mainly due
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Many momentous questions were to be discussed in the present year. In the view of,the
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d'efforts de la Commission
aient ete infructueux et que
vee devant une impasse, a
vaux. En tant que pays
loppe, l'lnde s'interesse a
atomique a des fins pacifiq
Elle compte que de nouvea
pour aborder la question
l'energie atomique a de t
elimination en tant qu'ar
espere vivement que les pr
prepareront la yoie a u
points de vue actuellement
La question du desarme
progres. 11 est evident que
ne peut disparattre du m
l'actuelle course aux arme
souligne le Secretaire ge
importante que I'eliminati
ques est la mise hors la lo
gique et chimique qui, pa
un tel degre de perfectionn
l'existence m~me de l'hu
generale doit se pencher s
la plus grande attention.
L'Assemhlee, au cours d
appeIee a examiner les p
propos des colonies et des t
aux termes des chapitres X
On connatt a ce sujet l'opi
de 1'Inde, deja nettement e
deux dernieres sessions. Ell
sitions de la Charte en cett
les plus essentielles. L'lnd
tente dans certains milieux
a peu et s'inquiete de voir
de reaction, au sujet desqu
des Philippines s'est exprim
si eloquente (139- seance)
La delegation de I'lnde,
tous les peurles a la lihert
teme colonia prendre fin a
peuples hahitllnt deb terr
des Territoires sous tutelle
le droit de se gouverner e
a ce que soient ohserves s
tres XI et XII, dans I'esprit
particulier, elle conjure les
de comprendre que les
d'hommes habitant les terri
trouvent heaucoup plus de
dispositions de la Charte
toires que ne sont enclines a
coloniales. Ces peuples lis
solennelles sur les lihertes
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de mesures restrictive
tiques et economique
compatible avec la 10
les Membres des Nati
Charte. L'Assemblee
P?~le en reculant dev
hllites les plus lourde
p'as jusqu'a quel poin
Etats Membres inflig
partie de leur peup,le
La delegation de Ilnd
a toute discriminatio
forme et 00 que ce so
bMe de s'efforcer tre
mer du monde tout g
Lors de la derniere
a I'Assemblee general
dernier (85 seance),
liberation. Mmo Pandi
de I'lnde, mais, plus
elle avait souligne le
pour ce pays une lib
Depuis douze mois, I
orageuse et troubIee, q
les pires de ses app
eclate en plusieurs po
tan et, au debut de ce
le supr~me sacrifice e
Gandhi, qui I'avait g
conqu~te de la liber
toute humilite devan
s'Mre montree indign
Le nouveau Gouve
dli faire feee a des
redoutables. 11 a com
au cours de l'annee, c
mais elles etaient plu
les circonstances exce
l'lnde avait conquis s
ces erreurs au moins,
L'lnde n'est pas un
tentions agressives en
rieur ni a l'interieu
dans les institutions
et durable. 11 est don
suive une politique
rejette cette accusati
ont eu I'audace de la
L'lnde" malgre le
les fausses manoouvre
chefs actuels, accomp
progres impressionna
quence d'elever le ni
peuple. Dans les dom
sante publique et de
vaux hydroelectrique
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Le Premier Minist
revenir ce ministre
Another minister of the Hyderabad Government, who had resigned on 23 July 1948 had
spoken of a complete reign of terror in certain
districts, of men murdered, women dishonoured,
houses burned.
In the fa'Je of this mounting evil, fomented
by a fHque of self-seekers, the choice before India
had not been between violence and non-violence,
but between the adoption of firm measures by
the State against the evil-doer and the continuance of murder and arson and looting on a large
scale directed against innocent men, women and
children. After a series of warnings and appeals,
India had chosen the former course and had
intervened. It was significant that leading Muslims in all parts of India had welcomed the
action taken by India in Hyderabad. That all
resistance had collapsed within five days had
been mainly due to the fact that the people of
Hyderahad, irrespective of ca8te and creed, were
behind India's action and had heartily welcomed
the restoration of order.
Je reconnais qu'a
niers mois se sont p
sons, plusieurs incid
Un autre ministre d
rabad, qui donna
let 1948, faisait allu
regnait dans certaine
assassines, de femme
brftIees.
En face de ce dec
des agissements d'u
n'avait pas a choisir
violenre, mais il fal
mesures severes con
ou qu'il acceptM de v
les incendies et les
echelle aux depens
d'enfants innocents.
sements et d'appels,
parti, celui de l'inte
que les chefs musulm
1'Inde aient favorabl
prises par I'lnde en
toute resistance se s
est surtout dli a ce q
sans distinction de c
tenu l'action de l'In
sement le retour de
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Mr. VYSHINSKY (Union of Soviet Socialist Repuhlics) said that at the sessions of the General
Assembly, it had already hecome a tradition for
each session to be opened with a general discussion in order that Memhers might get a general
picture of the path which had heen traversed,
sum up the events of the past year, make an
analysis of the activities of the United Nations,
and, as seemed natural, analyse the foreign policies of certain States, particularly of those which
played a leading role in the United Nations. At
the present session his delegation would present
its. review in the most concise form, and would
M. VYCHINSKY (Uni
Hstes sovietiques) dec
tionnel de voir chaq
generale s'ouvrir pa
qui permet aux Mem
demhle dn chemin p
de l'ann~e ecoulee, d
de l'Organisation de
iI n'est que naturel, d
gere de certains Etat
jouent un r61e prepon
des Nations Unies. A
gation de l'Union sov
from the United Kingdom the idea of an independent judiciary, the bulwark of British freedom. It had taken from the UIlion of Soviet
Socialist Republics many pTovisions for the
benefit of the common and forgotten man.
Remembering that India was to be a secular
State, it had provided every possible safeguard
for the protection of minorities. Copying a step
taken by the United States of America in 1946,
it had provided for the periodic appointment
of commissions to investigate the conditions of
any under-privileged classes of the population.
Anticipating one of the recommendations of the
Civil Rights Committee appointed in the United
States ofAmerica, it had provided for the appointment, both for the Union of India and for each
of the States, oi special officers to see that the
rights guaranteed by the Constitution were not
violated in the day-to-day administration of the
country. Adult suffrage for men and women
was to be the basis of all elections.
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la proposition pre
d'AIIlerlque tendait
tence de la Comm
ment des questions
tives a la paix et
le Conseil de securit
tion de la Charte de
on ne s'appuyait pa
mite des cinq grand
autre principe. 11 e
doute que, depuis
sition a contrihue a
tion internationale,
sion, la confiance e
que sur l'interM d
petit:s, qui aspirent
securite de tous
Toutefois, la C
pas justifie les esp
ceux: qui l'ont pre
Ce n t est pas par h
la Commission interi
a soulever, a la pr
de la transformatio
maire en un organe
En instituant la
Nations Unies pOUI
cette proposition av
l'intervention etrang
rieures de la Coree
d'un gouvernemen
lesquels les autori
s'appuyaient deja et
s'appuyer a l'aveni
ment les interMs d
Coree du Sud, de nom
violence et Dl~me d
contre les liberaux: e
prenaient unEI part a
cratique et qui refu
arhitraire de' leur
d'actes ilIegaux et d
les autorites americ
du Sud un gouve
ont qualifie, ia gran
Gouvernement. de t
falsi.ficatio~ ilt~ saur
. ~"vient particulierem
mine la situation en
vement national pou
de la Coree a pris
abouti a la creation
peuple, par la popula
que de la Coree du
la Republique popul
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aggressive purposes.
Equally unsuccessful had been the efforts of
the so-called United Nations Special Committee
on the Dalkans which had heen illegally set up
at the last session of the General Assembly,1 and
which was calculated to facilitate the suppression
of the national liberation movement in Greece,
on the one hand, and to strengthen and support
the artificial charges of the Greek monarchofascists against the northern neighbours of
Greece on the other. Such a committee, with
such an assignment and with such terms of
reference, had been unable to win laurels either
for itself or for the United Nations as a whole.
As far back as 1947, numerous caseS proving
the lack of impartiality in the worf of the Special
Committee had been cited in the First Comwlttee.
It had been proved that no r.onclusi"ns worthy
of attention or credit could he arrived at on the
basis of the material provided by the Speciai
Committee. Mr. Vyshinsky said that exactly the
same situation existed at present, and that
the USSR delegation would have to return to
the matter when the so-called Greek question
came under consideration at the meetings of the
First Committee and at subsequent meetings of
the General Assembly.
In the field of economic questions, the activities of the United Nations in the course of the
period under review had been concentrated on
problems which, though of some importance,
were far from affecting the most important interests of the peoples, and first and foremost, of
the peoples of those countries which had suffered
most from the war and from the severe hardships
and privations imposed upon them by the hitlerites. Such bodies of the United Nations as the
Economic and Social Council and the Economic
Commissions for Europe and for Asia and the
Far East had eschewed the fulfilment of the
important tasks of drafting measures calculated
to contribute to the rehabilitation of the economy
of wardevastated countries and to the development of their principal national industries.
Despite the lact, that, as was well known, th(~
Marshall Plan ignored the United Nations, the
economi,} bodies of the United Nations had
deemed it to be their most important task to
facilitate the implementation of that Plan in
every way possible. It was not accidental that
A 1 See QIliciaI RecordIi tM IICOfKl
uembly, lfflOlueiom, No. A 09 (H).
",lion of the
Gmwal
a.
a.
retour de I'Europe
economique et politi'1
Entre temps, H, est
ment qu'il y e un an
it la stabilisation eco
l'Europe, le plan Mar
la situation economi
ayant adhere it ce plan
independance econom
Abordant ensuite
de securite, M. Vychin
1948, le Conseil a
questions importante
application des resolu
adoptees par I'Assemb
ci, il est indispensable
la resolution de I'As
du 24 janvier 1946
ainsi .que la resolutio
generale le 14 dece
la reglementation et
des armements.
D'autre part, le Co
egalement des quest
de violations des pri
de la Charte des Nati
de I'AssembIee gene
dans la periode qu
certains Etats. Bien q
ces violations ont
encore une menace
securite des peuples,
du Conseil de securite
ter les mesures nece
sion, mais elle a ado
de vue oppose en sou
lea coupables. Il en a
indonesienne, it prop
de securite, la majori
pour arrMer l'agress
contre le peuple ind
adopte la m~me attitu
sion, le cas a ete tran
bons offices compos
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Mr. Vyshinsky then turned to another important question, a question which he regarded as
of exceptional importance, the question of the
control of atomic energy, and also the important
question of not utilizing atomic energy for other
than peaceful purposes. After thirty months of
work by the Atomic Energy Commission, there
had been no positive results.
The same applied as regards the Commission
for Conventional Armaments, which had worked
for almost the same period of time. None of
1 See
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O~l RtlCorth of ths Security Council, Second Year,
19 th meetmg and document 8/525.
s Ibid., 219th meeting and document 8/589.
A a See QIlkiaI RtlCorth of tM I8concl Hllion cif tM Gtmmll
u,mbly, 1fe,olutiom, No. 181 (lI).
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atomique n'ont pa
que le Gouverne
refuse et continue
prohleme principal
nerait le caractere
cernant la suppre
dans les armemen
I'application de I'e
uniquement pacifi
rappelle M. Vych
jours insiste sur la
diatement les al'me
tion it des fins d'ag
tr6le international
interdiction. Cette n
m~me de ce type d'a
et uniquement off
les villes, ces arme
nation en masse
Toute ohjection a
venir que des mil
le contr6le et tir
contre d'autres pay
leurs plans agressif
voir se realisar, m~
ou une grande m
la nation qui se p
la gu.erre et contr
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ne prevoit pas la
production atomique
xieme rapport de l
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11 septemhre 1947
tion des Etats-Unis s
contr61e internationa
qU3, destine a. emp~ch
destructives, doit com
vere de ces deux sub
I'uranium et le thoriu
tr61e doit logiqueme
qui sont la source
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surtout a. l' extractio
Cependant, il serai
Rapport des indica
blir en m~me temps
industrielle de l'ene
Aussi est-il eviden
nement des Etats-U
disant organisme d
sein duquel il comp
rite, mettre la main
premieres dans les a
les Etats-Unis refus
entreprises de p,.'o
sous le contr61e in
autres entreprises e
de matieres premie
te11e fac;on de pos
a. donner aux Etats
de portrsuivre, sans
tion de bombes ato
L'URSS continue
de la production d
ses stades, depuis
premieres jusqu'u,
produits manufactu
termediaire d'un o
lierement constitue
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Uni, de
France
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et politique des
l'ecrasement du fa
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suivre une politiq
tous ses efforts a
interieurs et, avan
au relevement et a
nomie nationale
La population d
efforts qu'au trav
et au developpem
liste de son pays,
pour la paix et la
La. politique de
et constance a l'e
ment de la coop
telle politique d
nature m~me de
etat socialiste d'ou
dement interesses
tions les plus fav
et createur et a l
socialiste. La po
est une politique
pays prMs a une c
lutte contre tout p
a la division des
l'application et la
democratiques nes
n n'en va pas
la p,olitique etran
les Etats-Unis d'A
guerre mondiale e
des Etats-Unis a m
la politique de lutt
a fait place aune p
nant il s'efforce d
domination mond
soutient ouvertem
monarcho-fascistes
les aide systemati
de I't..rgent et de
mouvements demo
nale. n organise d
blocs politiques,
militaires, aerienne
en etat et modern
etablies pendant
le Japon et l'Italie
poursuit une camp
en vue de faire c
avec I'URSS et
l'Europe orientale
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of the General Assembly,l denouncing propaganda concerning a new war and demanding
assistance hy means of information and propaganda for the purpose of strengthening friendly
relations hetween nations, had not checked the
instigators of war, who in the past year had
hecome more insolent. They were now carrying
on their criminal activities with even greater
cynicism and were trying to poison with war
propaganda as many as possihle of the common
people of their own countries. The propaganda
was accompanied hy slanderous falsehoods
concerning the alleged aggressiveness. of the
USSR and the new democracies. In that
way, an attempt was heing made to depict the
USeR as an undemocratic country, while on
the other band the United States of America,
the United Kingdom and other countries of the
Anglo-American hloc were heing pictured as
democratic countries par excellence. All tha~ was
accompanied hy a furious armaments race and
the development of plans for an attack against
the USSR and the new democracies as well
as hy the preparation of other military measures.
In that connexioil, it had to he recalled that
although three years had elapsed since the end
of the Second World War, the Anglo-American
Combined Chiefs of Staff, a hody which was
directed against the interests of peace, continued
to exist secretly. It had heen established in
1942 for the period of the war of the united
nations against fascist Germany and for the task
of directing the military operations of the
Allies. It was still continuing its secret activities. Among the United States representatives
on its staff were Admiral Leahy, Admiral Lewis
Denfleld, General Bradley, General Hoyt Vandenherg, and among the United Kingdom
representatives were Admiral Sir Henry Moore,
Lieutenant General Sir WiHiam Morgan. and Air
Marshal Medhurst.
In September 1947, under the supervision of
the Anglo-American Combined Chiefs of Staff,
manffiuvres were held in the North Atlantic with
the participation of British, American and Canadian naval units. In September 1948, manoouvres for the so-called defence of the United
Kingdom were held with the participation of
British and American Air Forces.
At the same time measures were being talcen
for the expansion and fortification mainly of
1 See Official Recordl of the aecond
A"embly, lfeBolutiom. 110 (11).
,e,m
of the General
session de l'Asse
damne la propaga
guerre et demand
de puhlicite et de
cales entre les na
tateurs
la gue
plus insolents au
lis poursuivent
criminelles avec
s'efforcent de co
de buerre le plu
gens simples de
gande est accom
nieux sur la pre
et des nouvelles
essaie de represe
non democratiqu
rique, le Royaum
hloc anglo-saxon
par excellence. T
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tion de plans d'
nouvelles democr
point d'autres m
Il faut, ce p
trois ans se soie
de la deuxieme
unifie anglo-sax
les inter~ts de l
secret. Cet orga
la periode de
co:atre I'AUemag
(~ps~',ations milita
a4,tivite secrete.
Etats-Unis
ce
Leahy, I'amiral
Bradley, le gener
les representant
Sir Henry Moore,
et le general de l
En septemhre
I'etat-major unif
dans I'Atlantiqu
queUes ont par
I'Angleterre, des
septemhre 1948
theme une prete
ont eu lieu ave
aeriennes anglais
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pour l' extension
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against the USSR and against the new democracies. The Press discussed various plans
for the attack against the USSR from those
bases, with the clear intention of puzzling nervous
people in boasting of United States military
powers and in particular of the power of the
tt special invasion forces",
as the American
weekly, the Saturday Evening Post, had pointed
out in its issue of 11 September. It had mentioned the special invasion forces which were
being prepared, that is to say bombers which
could carry showers of atomic bombs.
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Royaume-Uni, Union des Republiques soci
sovietiques, France et Chine, comme un pr
pas vers la reduction des armements e
forces armees, de reduire d'un tiers, pe
une annee, toute8 l~s forces terrestres, n
et aeriennes dont ils disposent;
Recommend8 the prohibition of atomic weapODS as weapons intended for aims of aggression
and not for those of defence;
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habituelle.
Mr. NOURy-Ef:lFANDlARY (Iran) thanked the Government of the French Republic on behalf of
the Iranian delegation for the generous hospitality kindly extended to it.
At the close of the most dreadful of all wars
that had ever devastated the world, the United
Nations Organization had heen created with the
aim of ensuring for sadly tried mankind the
peace and security to which it aspired after so
much suffering and misfortune. Despite the
hitter memory of the failure of the League of
Nations to fulfil its essential task of safeguarding
peace, the newly created Organizat,ion had
brought fresh comfort to its Member nations
hy holding out to them the/romise of a peaceful
existence hased on law an justice.
Only three years had passed and already
difficulties of all kinds existed, which one day
might threaten the very existence of the Organization if they were not resolved in a spirit of
understanding and mutual collaboration. In
international life,.difficulties might arise at every
step and divergencies of opinion were frequent
indeed in the face of post-war problems, grave
and complex as they were.
What mattered however was that those prohlems should he approached with a feeling
of moral responsibility and with a firm will to
solve them, and that at the most critical times,
such as the present, a supreme effort should he
made to reach solutions that were both practical
and just.
The Iranian delegation, together with all
others, rejoiced in the existence of the United Natif.>ns; but it was also duty hound to help to
make it capable of fulfilling its pl'imary task
- that of maintainil~a peace and international
security by suppressing all acts of aggression.
Without wishing to underestimate the importance of the economic and soda! work of the
Organization, he must point out that unless
paragraph 1 of Article 1 of the Charter were
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Mr. THORN (New Zealand) expressed his pleasure that the General Assembly should be
held in Paris and thanked the French people
for their generous hospitality. The sole aim
of his delegation was to help the United Nations
to achieve the aims it had set itself, which were
to maintain international peace and security;
to develop friendly relations among nations; to
achieve international co-operation in solving
problems of an economic, social and humanitarian character, and to be a centre for harmonizing the efforts made by nations towards
those common ends.
Nothing was easier or more sterile than to
criticize international institutions but it must
be realized that, whatever its defects, the United
Nations was a vital organization whose action
was felt in almost every part of the world. In
that respect the Secretary-General's annual report 1 had made a great impression on his
delegation.
The work of the United Nations could not
be judged from day to day or even from session
to session. Longer perspectives were needed
to ascertain whether the United Nations had
contributed to the alleviation of tension, to
the promotion of respect for human rights or
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