UNITED NATIONS: Motion Carried

Resolved: that the Security Council under Article 34 of the Charter establish, a commission to ascertain the facts relating to the alleged border "violations along the frontier between Greece on the one hand and Albania, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia on the other.

The vote in favor was unanimous. Three months ago Russia had vetoed a similar proposal; this time, although Russia's Andrei Gromyko again brandished the veto, he failed to throw it. The U.N. Assembly which closed in triumph last fortnight had advised the big powers to use the veto with restraint. Last week they were doing so.

The Council agreed that all...

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