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U.N. ASSEMBLY
OFFICES
Nominations Not
To Be Called
Australian Associated Press
LONDON. Nanuary 27.
After a three-hour debate the
United Nations General As-
sembly yesterday adopted, by
25 votes to 18, a section of the
Legal Committee's report, re
commending an amendment to the
provisional rules of procedure to
provide that there should be no
nominations for the offices and posi
tions in the Assembly.
The committee made the recom
mendation following a discussion
which extended oter many days
on a. proposal by the Ukrainian
delegation that nominations should
be called openly.
Australia and the other three
Dominions voted against the com
mittee's recommendation.
The decision marked the end
of a long and unsuccessful fight
waged by M. Dimitro Manuilski
(Ukraine) for what he described
as a "principle of open democracy."
16-Day Struggle
For 16 days—since the Assembly,
at its first meeting, elected its pre
sident—he had been trying to alter
the provisional rules of procedure,
so as to have open nominations for
all positions and offices in the As
sembly.
The delegates, by their vojes,
made the relevant rule more,'fle
flnite by adding that there should
be no nominations.
At the Assembly's open meeting
on January 10, M. lie (Norway)
was the only delegate openly nom
inated for the presidency. When
the result of a secret ballot was
counted, M. Spaak (Belgium) was
declared elected.
M. Manuilski, who had proposed
M. Lie, immediately began his fight
to have nominations called openly.
Australia took a prominent part
in a decision reached by the legal
committee of the United Nations to
adopt Ecuador's proposal that "an
equitable adjustment of prices on
the international market" should
be the subject of a conference to
be called by the Economic and
Social Council.
The committee decided by 25
votes to 12 to include prices as well
as other subjects.
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