Following is text of Statement which I released to the Press today
and which summarises what we have done at San Francisco.

Begins: - Australia originally proposed 38 amendments of
substance. Of these 38 26 have either been adopted without
material change or have been adopted in principle or have been
made unnecessary by other alterations; two have led to significant
alterations. Besides these six important new obligations in
relation to the trusteeship of dependent peoples were suggested
and have been included in the new Chapter. There were also
important amendments introduced during Committee discussions and
amendments sponsored by others which the Australian Delegation
actively supported to success. The Australian proposals which were
accepted include the following
(1) Amendment to lay down a governing principle aimed at
protection of territorial integrity and political independence of
member States.

(2) Provisions that peaceful settlement shall proceed not
arbitrarily but in conformity with the principles of justice and
international law.

(3) Inclusion of a specific provision that the only permissible
intervention of the organisation in matters of domestic
jurisdiction shall be in the case of actual enforcement measures
by the Security Council.

(4) The most vital amendment to extend the Assembly's right of
discussion and recommendation to all matters and questions within
the scope of the Charter which necessarily includes preamble,
purposes, principles and all the activities of the organs.

(5) Amendment preventing freezing of disputes in the Security
Council as occurred in the League of Nations by requiring the
Security Council to report to the Assembly or the member States
immediately it has ceased to deal with the dispute.

(6) Amendment designed to ensure that all the special military
agreements to place forces and facilities at the disposal of the
Security Council shall be made not by members inter se but by the
Security Council with each member or group of members.

(7) Amendment to secure that in the election of non-permanent
members of the Security Council, special regard shall be had first
to proven ability to contribute to international security and then
to geographical representation.

(8) The substance of Australia's amendment specifically providing
for the right of self defence in case of inaction by the Security
Council was incorporated in Senator Vandenberg's [1] formula on
regional arrangement.

(9) Amendments to the Economic and Social Chapter to include the
promotion of full employment and higher living standards within
the purposes of the Economic Council.

(10) Inclusion of a definite pledge by each member to take action
to promote (inter alia) the objective of full employment by joint
and separate action in co-operation with the organisation.

(11) An amendment designed to secure that the objective of the
organisation will be that fundamental human rights shall not only
be respected but observed.

(12) Amendments to enlarge the powers of the Economic and Social
Council to enable it to call conferences, to prepare conventions,
to coordinate agencies and generally to act as a coordinating
economic body.

(13) Contribution to the new chapter on trusteeship. Seven
Australian amendments were adopted including a general declaration
of trusteeship in relation to all non-self-governing countries and
the specifying of obligations of the trustee as including
(a) Just treatment of the peoples concerned,
(b) their protection against abuses,
(c) the promotion of constructive measures of development,
(d) encouragement of research,
(e) full co-operation with other international bodies, and most
important
(f)the transmission regularly to the World Organisation of full
statistical information relating to economic social and
educational conditions of the native people.

(14) The removal of the individual veto on Constitutional
Amendments was not obtained but in co-operation with other smaller
nations the opportunities of special constitutional review were
facilitated.

This is by no means a complete measure of the work of the
Australian Delegation. For instance, we assisted Peru in obtaining
the adoption of the general rule of practice that meetings of the
Assembly shall be open to the public and the press of the world.

Moreover, our efforts contributed to the solemn undertaking by the
Five Great Powers that every dispute before the Security Council
would be discussed and considered in spite of this. Our main
proposal on the veto issue was that there should be no individual
great power veto on any of the processes of conciliation. Our
proposal was lost although it would have been adopted but for the
plain intimation by the Great Powers that the Charter would not be
signed if the amendment were carried.

Perhaps the most important achievement of the Conference is the
work of the small nations in liberalising and making more
democratic the Dumbarton Oaks text.

Australia could not possibly have succeeded to the extent
indicated herein but for the resolution and steadiness of many
nations including important British Dominions, Latin American,
European and Middle East Nations. In view of this valuable co-
operation it is in my opinion certain that the General Assembly of
the World Organisation will be a democratic institution and will
not tolerate any resurgence of Fascism.