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:*S RUSSIAN DELEGATION, from left, ficki Ivanoff, James Ivanoff, Mohinder Bedi, id lames A. Walper, go into a huddle to lap out strategy for next move. Cleverly >rtraying their true Russian counterparts,
—(Courtesy L.A. Times)
the SC delegates caused flurries of action throughout the Model United Nations sessions. True-to-form, the "Russians" wrangled successfully.
France, Russ Clash In Security Council
by Sandy Bothman
The special commission to investigate the Chinese Communist invasion of Indo-China made a surprise report of “no aggression” at the special session of the Security council Saturday morning.
The commission’s report stated that there was “no aggression of Indo-China” because the area that was allegedly invaded, Viet Nam, was not under French control at the time of the reported aggression.
The area is under control of Ho Chin Minh’s guerilla forces, the report said, and is, therefore, not a part of French Indo-China.
“There has been heavy mobilization within the border of China and this has been misinterpreted as aggression,” the report said.
Set up Friday night to investigate the surprise invasion issue, the commission was composed of India, Pakistan, United Kingdom, and Indonesia.
After the reading of the report, the Security council became so involved in a series of moves, counter-moves, resolutions, and points of order that the meeting seemed caught like the proverbial fly in the spider’s web so elegantly spun by the Russian (SC) and French (Pomona) delegations.
Finally, after the commission’s report seemed to be doomed to remain in the Security council, it was referred to the General assembly
Before the referral, however, the French delegation, “not at all pleased by the commission’s report of no aggression,” produced a hand-written note stating that Chinese Com-
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Impasse
Governs
Decision
Compromise Guided by Cohen as U.S. Group kails to Tab Aggressor
by Tony Derry
'ailed into an emergency sion Saturday afternoon hear the report of the Se-Irity council, concerning the jeged invasion of Indo-lina by troops of Commun-China. the Model UN ^neral assembly, after three Ijrs of bitter debate, passed a ilution calling for the sending a 14-member Peace Observation umission to Indo-Oiina to inti gate the “incidents.'’
This resolution had been worked as a con1 promise agreement tween U.S. < Stanford' and ?.S R 'SC i at the suggestion of IfeMHfn Cohen of Chile, assist-.secretary-general of UN and if president (rf Model UN. 'ohen's suggestion came after it is apparent that the General ns-fmoly had reached an impasse in reliberations. With only an bur remaining until the closing of }e second Model UN and many iportant matters to be considered ! decision hr.d to be made swiftly.
C. S. Moderate [Actually, throughout the lengthy Ue the U. S. position was more ^derate than had been expected kd even ottered a basis Ior IS.S.R support. The U. S. dele-Ite did not name Communist Inna as an aegressor nor demand it UN troops be sent to curb the |vr.6ic n. Hr only asi:ed that UN sops be prep?.reel for possible ac->n after the UN commission had Ive'tigated the aggressive indents.
sharp, staccato so ltenoes the ian (SC» delegate. Mohinder fcli denied that there was an ac-f.1 invasion by Chinese Commun-forces. He maintained thr.t if J ± hafl taken place it had pn done by natives of Indo-China ie Communist guerillas' in a ittle for their freedom from “im-riaiist" France.
Ke said the only blood that had ?n spilt in Indo-China was by tench troops, who did not even flong there. He accused Fiance fabricating tales of invasion and loodshed to gain UN support in ippressng the rights of a peace-Jving people.
French Delegate | The F:ench (Pomona > delegate lited the debate when he heat-lly attacked thc report brought by the Security councils committee set up to investigate charges an invasion. He said he did not |p]ieve this committee had known the facts about the invasion (Continued on Page 4)
‘War* News Surprises Session China Invades;
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Act Aggression
UN Group Appoints Investigators
Security Group Passes Western Armament
bjr Alice Katesm
A five-nation commission to investigate charges of invasion of Indochina (Alaska* by Chineese communist ( OSC > troops was appointed by an emergency session of the Security Council late Friday night.
The emergency meeting was called I at 4:15 that afternoon when over-I wrought French (Pomona' dele-j gates interrupted the Model United , Nations, seated in General Assembly, with a complaint of aggression.
News of the surprise issue electrified the Assembly who listened intently to the reading of a cable-I gram from the government of Viet Nam by Secretary-General Bill , McGinn. The text read:
Text of Cable
‘ The government of Viet Nam j states that at about 03.00 hours. Apr. 4. attacks were launched in strength by Chinese People's Republic forces all along the border from Laokai to Hagiang.
“At 05.00 hours Peking Radio rumored to have, asserted success of Chinese ‘volunteer units'. Chinese forces reported advancing down Red river toward Hoabinh.
"Units led by 36 t»nks and armored cars. Kaobang and Dandong threatened. Emperor Baodai exhorted people of Viet Nam to repulse this dastardly attack."
The commission, consisting of Ceylon (Santa Monica). India (UCLA). Indonesia (San Jose). Pakistan. and the United Kingdom (Redlands) were to have reported their
findings to the Security Council Saturday morning.
Three hours of debate preceded final agreement on action to be taken on the complaint, marked mostly by USSR (SC) monkey-! wrenching.
An original French resolution called for the body to determine that the action was a breach of peace, and to ask immediate cessation of hostilities by the Red Chinese troops against Viet Nam and withdrawal of all such troops to the Indochinese border.
It further asked for the settingup of an investigating commission to report back to the Security Coun-
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Mohinder Bedi of the USSR immediately took issue with the j French resolution labeling it superfluous.
What Invasion
"No breach of peace has been committed," he said, “no invasion has taken place, the territory of Viet Minh is involved in rather than Viet Nam. and therefore the com-,plaint is out of order."
“This is not an invasion," Bedi insisted, “it is a cooperative movement between the People's Republic of China and the Viet Minh."
Frequent cries from French delegate Raoul Kulberg of Pomona “These are REBELS Mr. President,” punctuated Redi's comments.
The USSR delegate vociferously made the point that Russia did not recognize the puppet Viet Nam government of “Emperor Baodai of
i the French Riviera” and then pro-1 ceeded to pull every tactic in the book to delay action.
The battered and bruised French resolution, five amendments later, was vetoed by Bedi when Nationalist China (Loyola) attempted to deprive the USSR of vetopowrer by amending to have the commission report directly to the General Assembly.
“May I remind the delegate from the USSR that time means blood." said Kuomintang's Bob Rose pointedly to Bedi.
This was after Russia had failed earlier both to unseat “the defunct organization on Formosa” and to get a ruling of substantive instead of-procedural from the chair in or der to gain veto power.
It was then that the Security Council compromised on a resolution mentored by the USSR and sponsored by Turkey, United Kingdom, and th£ U.S. setting up the present commission.
The USSR and Nationalist China both abstained.
The still afternoon emergency session of the Security Council was in pleasurable contrast to the bustling come-and-go that w^ent on in the General Assembly. Sobered delegates were completely rapt in the proceedings.
Observers felt Russia had again come out on top of the card heap, in retaining its veto power and in the approval of a commission consisting of four Southeast Asian nations.
Finland Gains UN Membership As Russian Walkout Backfires
by Hank Alcouloumre
Russia's walk-out tactics backfired during a mock Security council meeting Friday when railroad tactics were resorted to and successfully employed by the council in admitting Finland < Olympic Community college) to the United Nations only moments after the Soviet delegation <SC' staged its famous “Vishinsky Valtz.”
While the Soviet delegation was out cooling its heels over the councils refusal to change the order of business on the agenda—a procedural point raised by Russia to consider th* Iranian oil dispute before the Indonesian question and turr.ed dc-w*.i by the council—the Netherlands (Whittier > took advantage of the opportune moment to offer reconsideration of Thursdays vote which ' denied Finland admission into ihe United Nations by 'irtue of Russia's veto.
Greece Move Fails Before the Soviet delegation coild resume its seats, the vote was carried in favor of admitting Finland.
the admission of Italy, but quickly withdrew the motion as the Soviet delegation sat down.
With the premature summer heat forcing the temperature up to 90 degrees, tempers, too. began to flare noticeably. Russia, represented alternately by Mohinder Bedi and Bo Jansen, requested that Iran (San Francisco State) be heard before Indonesia (A\n Jose State college) because of the “ailingcondition of Iran’s premier, Mohammed Mossadegh.
Portrays Mossadegh (The part of the Iranian premier was dramatically portrayed by Mohamed Kamaly, an Iranian student who recently received his master's degree in international economics at San Francisco State college. Kamaly had the opportunity to personally confer with the Iranian premier when he visited New York and Washington.)
Immediately following a ddscus-In a desperate attempt to “make ! sion of the Indonesian question,
which was referred to committee tor a report within 48 hours, the (Continued on Page 2)
M. S. BEDI . leads Russ walkout
hay while the sun shines,” Greece (Orange Coast college* moved to suspend the agenda and reconsider
by Charles Sweet
France’s abrupt announcement that Chinese Reds had invaded its puppet state of Viet Nam broke up the second plenary session of the' General Assembly Friday.
The “surprise issue” was presented with dramatic suddenness. French delegate Harry Major (Pomona college)
ran down the Bovard auditorium aisle with his communique and obtained permission of President Benjamin Cohen to address the General Assembly immediately.
The French delegates branded the invasion of Indo China an act of aggression against a member nation and Presidet Cohen called a hurried meeting of the Security council.
“Chinese Communist forces are attacking in strength along the Viet Nam border with support of 36 tanks. Emperor Bao Dai of Viet Nam called upon his people to resist the aggressor,” the communique read in part.
Arab Ultimatum Following close on the heels of the French announcement was the reading of an ultimatum from the Arab nations to the U(N. Peru delivered the message, p,nd for a while it looked as if there would be two “surprise issues” instead of one.
The Arab ultimatum demanded that either the Arab nations be allowed to settle in Palestine or a state of war would exist between the Arabs and Israel.
It was ruled, however that priority should be given to the French government's plea.
The two announcements cai^ie as a climax to a session that saw adoption of a disarmament resolution introduced by Haiti (Chapman), New Zealand (F’ullerton), United States (Stanford), Iceland (East Contra Costa), and India (UCLA).
These nations amended proposal called for adding six members from the General assembly to the already existing commission on disarmaments, with a further recommendation that the Big 5 meet each to resolve their differences.
Arms Vote The final vote on the proposal of disarmaments saw it adopted 44 to 3, with 5 abstentions and 8 nations either not voting or absent from the session. Russia and her satellites had walked out.
A substitute armaments proposal by Argentina which had been approved by Russia was finally withdrawn after many minutes of parliamentary haggling.
Benjamin Cohen .assistant secretary-general of UN, was elected permanent president of the Model sessions by unanimous vote after being nominated for the post by the Uleranan SSR (New Mexico Highlands and Citrus JC).
—Courtesy L.A. Examiner.
MEMBERS OF THE USSR delegation, SC students, are
shown at Friday's session of the General Assembly. Soon after the picture was snapped, the Russian delegation staged a dramatic walk-out, much like those in the real UN-
Farewell Banquet
Cohen Decries Prophets of Doom
When close to 700 students departed from Saturday night’s Model UN banquet, the evening became a matter of history, and the enthusiastic guests were probably saying “thanks for the memory.” Benjamin Cohen, assistant secretary-general of the UN, awed the guests by the passion of his words on the UN, and then several International students delighted the audience with entertaining portrayals of their native culture. The students were introduced by Peter Lind Hayes and Mary Healy. master and mistress of ceremonies.
SC Withdraws Awards for the best delegations were presented. SC's delegation, prior to the selections, had withdrawn themselves from the running.
When Cohen arose to speak, several powerful klieg lights were focused upon him, and the newsreel cameras began to whir.
He glanced at the array of UN flags in the room and then said, “the charter of the UN is not only a cnarter among governments, but it is also a charter among human beings created to prevent war.
“Much of the work done by the UN is not spectacular; it is done in the silence of meeting rooms, in the spirit of good will.
Human Brotherhood “The UN is a human organization, working for human beings.
“The ideal of.human brotherhood, which the UN stands for, is higher than any nation.” he said. He emphasized that “loyalty to the UN ideal is not exclusive of national loyalty; it merely transcends it.”
He expressed grave concern over the way in which many of us are
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being led down the path of hatred, “made to believe negatively, to believe against, not for. “We must be for something," he said ^nith great passion, and then more tenderly, “We must be for the dreams of today which may become the realty of tomorrow.
Better World “We must build a world in which all cultures will help to create a cultural pattern better for all. We of the United Nations are pledged to this ideal, W; are sometimes rudely aw-akened by the preachers of doom, but we know that you, who have shown interest in the UN. that you don’t believe those prophets of doom.
“The United Nations is here to stay,” he said, “because it was created by the peoples of the world.” When Mogens Skot-Hansen, UN representative to the film industry, introduced Mary Pickford, he chuckled “She's wonderful! She's as nervous as if she were at her debut.”
Eager Faces
When she spoke, her voice faltered with emotion for a second, and then she said. “When I look out at those eager faces I see that they are all good looking, because it's our inner thoughts that make us handsome.
I hope you may live long enough to see the fruition of these meetings, and long enough to see peace in the world.”
Skot-Hansen then presented the awards. First he announced that “SC withdrew from the ‘Oscar' list.” | The two awards for colleges who 1 best represented smaller colleges (not one of the big five) went to UCLA (.India), first place; and Citrus college and New Mexico Highland college (Ukranian Socialist Soviet Republic), second prize.
Redlands Wins The award for the best one of the big five went to the University of Redlands (United Kingdom).
Honorable mention awards were presented to Pepperdine (Argentina)’ USF (Iran, and Compton college and Caffey Junior college (Dominican-Republic).
A special award was presented to Jerry Harris, conference director. It was called “The thing he could most use after his tremendous job.”
It consisted of a box of aspirin. 1
by Charles Lahey
It appeared for a while Friday morning that the Political and Se-curty committee meeting on the regulation and control of arms would end in a stalemate.
But a surprise move on the part of the Western nations within the closing minutes of the meeting helped to defeat the Ukrainian (Citrus JC and New Mexico Highlands college) disarmament resolution and get their own proposal passed by a majority vote.
Shortly after the session was called to order by the Haitian delegate Chapman college) received the floor and called for an immediate caucus on the lawn in front of the building. He asked all interested nations to send one representative to discuss Informally the disarmament issue in order to get a workable plan for the disarmament committee.
The Soviets (SC) objected and called it an attempt on the part of the United States (Stanford) to hare the issue be presented in light
of their own point of view.
After the delegates left, the floor was given to the Ukraine SSR. The delegate stated that the rejection of the proposal for disarmament by the other delegates was regretted by the Ukraine delegation. He said that it was shocking to see such a peace overture spurned and that the Ukraine assumes that “the way to disarm is to disarm.” He called for the destruction of atomic stockpiles and conventional weapons. He said that the resolution as proposed was for a continuous inspection by a disarmament committee and no international ownership of atomic power. According to the delegate the USRR was only interested in using atomic power for such peaceful purposes as moving mountains. He said that “peace can o§ly be secured through mutual faith and the Ukraine cannot stand by and see the people of the world be led by the money lenders with dollar signs dancing before their eyes.”
The United Kingdom (Redlands) . said that some points of the Ukrainian resolution were new and commended them for specific issues, but the issue now under discussion could not be settled in the air of political tehsion then existent. The delegate asked that the resolution be referred to the disarmament committee. If this could be done, he went cL, then the United States. Haiti, and New Zealand would propose a resolution that would implement the existing disarmament commission.
A verbal vote among the representatives was taken to determine if this could be done and it was decided that the only point of issue then under discussion was the Ukrainian proposal on disarmament.
India (UCLA) then stated its views on the Ukrainian proposaL The Relegates referred to part one of the resolution which stated that conventional armaments be reduced one third in a year. He said that if there was no knowledge of the total amount of arms how then could they decide on a one-third reduction. He asked all the delegates to look at the issue honestly and objectively.
Another objection came from Brazil (Occidental). It pointed out that the resolution did not state where the power to enforce the reduction would come from. The disarmament commission would be able to make recommendations but it would have no power to implement them with force. Brazil asked for a rejection of the Ukrainian proposal.
The USSR defended the Ukrainian resolution by saying that the ends that could be achieved through the resolution are those that all the nations are seeking. But he said, the United Kingdom and the Western Bloc were seeking to destroy this resolution and substitute one of their own. He said, in reference Continued on Page 2