Show I THE WHITE PAPER By DENNIS WHITE At the present the United Nations faces a million The major proportion of the deficit Is the result of the Congo crisis and the peace-keeping mission in the Middle THE PROBLEM is genuinely a serious one and one which must be solved The most desirable solution and the one that has been decided upon is to sell United Nations bonds much in the same manner that our government sells savings Kennedy wants to sell million worth of these bonds in the United As is common these days in the U.S. there has and will no doubt continue to be a considerable amount of protest in the most conservative elements our The wisdom of the plan upon close as sound as most anything can MOST PEOPLE who oppose the plan oppose it on the grounds that Russia has refused to take part in it or to help pay off the obligation in the future by special the payment back of the loan is to come out of the general operating budget of the which is maintained by the annual assessments of member nations called for in the ANY MEMBER nation which refuses to pay its annual asses- ment will normally severe Article 17 of the charter says that expenses shall be borne by the members as apportioned by the General Article 19 says any member more than two years in arrears have no vote in the General unless the assembly decides that failure to pay in due to conditions beyond the member's THE CHARTER does specify what is to be done about member nations refusing to pay special such as those levied for the Congo and the Middle East The proposed bond issue a method of obtaining the funds necessary for these legitimate U.N. operations and at the same time forcing the member nations to live up to their The fact is that there are if members who wold risk losing their vote in the General least of all the |