UNO

At UNO's first session in London, the Security Council:

P: Heard Iranian charges against Russian troops in Azerbaijan and Russian countercharges against British troops in Greece and Indonesia;

P: Rejected Albania's appeal for immediate admission; C]J Witnessed Russia's first use of the veto power to block a U.S. plan for withdrawing French and British troops from Syria and Lebanon;

P: Adjourned Feb. 16 until its New York meeting, about March 21.

The General Assembly:

P: Elected Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak as president;

P:Barred Franco Spain from UNO;

P: Chose New York as temporary site (three to five years) and Westchester-Fairfield as permanent site;

P: Rejected Russia's demand for forcible repatriation of refugees;

P:Voted a $22 million annual budget for a multi-nation Secretariat staff of 2,500 under Norway's Trygve Lie;

P: Adjourned Feb. 15 until Sept. 3, in New York.

The Economic and Social Council, with India's Sir Ramaswami Mudaliar as president, called a Paris conference on international health for June 20.

The Military Staff Committee set up an executive to meet in New York and lay groundwork for a UNO police force.

The Atomic Control Commission (created by the Assembly, reporting to the Council) was scheduled to meet for the first time in March, in New York or Washington.

The International Court of Justice received its first case, the British-Guatemalan dispute over British Honduras, to be heard in April at The Hague, when the court meets for the first time with these Assembly-elected judges: Charles De Visscher (Belgium), J. Philadelpho de Barros e Azevedo (Brazil), Sir Arnold D. McNair (Britain), John E. Read (Canada), Hsu Mo (China), Alejandro Alvarez (Chile), Abdel Hamid Badawi Pasha (Egypt), J. Gustavo Guerrero (El Salvador), Jules Basdevant (France), Fabela Alfaro (Mexico), Helge Klaestad (Norway), Bohdan Winiarski (Poland), Sergei B. Krylov (Russia), Green H. Hackworth (U.S.), Milovan Zoricich (Yugoslavia).

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