Editorial Note
The United Nations Security Council met on September 7 from 11:00 a. m. to 1:10 p. m. and from 3:20 p. m. to 6:30 p. m.; for the record, see U.N. document S/PV.497. At the request of the United States Representative, who introduced a draft resolution (S/1752) calling for the establishment of a Security Council commission to investigate on the scene the Chinese Communist complaint of bombing of Manchuria, the Council voted by eight (including the U.S.) to one (U.S.S.R.), with two abstentions (Egypt and India), to consider the “Complaint of bombing by air forces of the territory of China” before the “Complaint of armed invasion of Taiwan (Formosa).” The Soviet Representative drew attention to a draft resolution (S/1759), which he had introduced on September 5, calling on the Council to invite a representative of the People’s Republic of China to sit in on the sessions dealing with the bombing complaint. The Council then decided that the question taken up in the Soviet draft resolution should be dealt with first. The vote was seven in favor to three opposed (China, Cuba, and Ecuador), with one abstention (U.S.).