Editorial Note
On February 7, 1951, the First Committee of the United Nations General Assembly rejected a Soviet draft resolution (A/C.1/637), requesting Security Council action to stop alleged United States aggression in China, by 49 votes to 5, with 3 abstentions, and another Soviet draft resolution (A/C.1/660), requesting Security Council action to stop alleged United States violations of Chinese air space and other illegal acts, by 50 votes to 5, with 2 abstentions. For the record of [Page 1569] the meeting, see United Nations document A/C.1/SR.441. At a meeting that afternoon, the Committee approved, by 38 votes to 5, with 8 abstentions, a motion by the United Kingdom Representative to adjourn debate on agenda item 71, the question of Formosa; for a record of the meeting, see United Nations document A/C.1/SR.442.
On February 13, the two Soviet draft resolutions were reintroduced in the General Assembly (A/1776 and A/1777) and defeated by votes of 48 to 5, with 3 abstentions, and 51 to 5, with 2 abstentions. For the text of a statement opposing the resolutions, made before the General Assembly by United States Deputy Representative Ernest A. Gross, see the Department of State Bulletin, February 26, 1951, pages 355–356.