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Power, whether it be great or small, it cannot come to this Council and state its case. While the Government I represent has been included in subsequent charges of endangering peace, in so far as I am principally responsible or at least my Government is principally responsible, in the case of Greece, I shall offer no objection to the fullest investigation and discussion. In fact, I am so tired of these charges made by the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in private assembly that no one will be happier than I shall be to see them brought out into the open and to see that the British Government has a chance to clear its conduct in connection with this country.
If there is a complaint by the Iranian Government against the Government of the USSR, then I think that the Iranian Government should be given a chance to come to the table and state its case. Then we should be in a position to judge whether or not its case is justified. I would like it to go on the agenda, and to have a discussion in the open, because I believe that peace depends upon bringing these facts out before the world, whether they are right or whether they are wrong.
With regard to Indonesia, that is primarily a matter for the Dutch Government. There is a situation in which we are clearing up a condition arising out of the war, of disarming Japanese who have trained a crowd of people who are mainly fascists and who are resisting the disarming of the Japanese soldiers and following a policy which is on a rather different footing. That is a situation which must be argued by the Government primarily responsible.
The President: I am reluctant to intervene, but I should like to suggest that the representative of the United Kingdom to, at the moment, there is no item which makes his remarks quite regular.
The last question was by the USSR delegation with regard to the procedure to be adopted relating to the item that has just been included in the agenda. That had already been carried. I was now going to proceed with the submission of the second item, which, of course, is the item dealing with the complaint of the reprehension of Greece. I can submit that now to the Council, and the remarks of the representative of the United Kingdom then would be strictly in order.
Mr. Bevin (United Kingdom): But I should like to know what has been carried.
The President: I submitted to the Council that the matter contained in the letter from the Iranian delegation should be included as an item in the agenda of this Council. I asked for such comment as the Council might have, and it will be remembered that I indicated, after a slight lapse of time, that the item had been carried.
