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1 am going to propose to adjourn till tomorrow at 3 p.m. if that is agreeable. We shall continue the discussion aÎ the prohlem l'le are discussing now, and we shall perhaps be able to consider the Iranian question if the report of the experts is completed before then. Colonel HODGSON (Australia): There was some suggestion at one time that we sit on Friday, but if you wish to ascertain the views of the Council, personally 1 shoud prefer to sit tomor- :i.'OW mOrnLTlg at 11 a,m. and again in an afternoon meeting at 2.30 or 3 p.m. Mr. GROMYKO (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) (translated trom Russian): 1 have not quite understood the necessity for having two meetings tomorrow and one the day after tomorrow. Would it not be better to have a meeting tomorrow and another the day after tomorr{'w, as was decided yesterday? Mr. VELLOSO (Brazil) (translated trom French): My religious sentiments and those of my colleagues and the nation 1 represent do not permit me to take part in a meeting of the Council on Good Friday.

1 think 1 would propose that we should m ... tomorrow at 3 p.m., then adjourn, .and meet again whenever you wish. Sir Alexander CADOGAN (United Kingdom): Can we not take a decision now on that? 1 should he against meeting on Friday. Mr. STETTINIUS (United States of America): My delegation would be opposed to meeting 011 Friday. Mr. VAN KLEFFENS (Netherlands): 1 share the views of my Brazilian and United States colleagues. . . Mr. LANGE (Poland): 1 wanted to propose that we meet tomorrow - and it makes reaJ1y no difference whether we meet once or t'Mce tomorrtlw - and that our next meeting he eithe:i' 1 on Monda;V' or Tueaday. THIRTY-Flr-••i MEETiNG Held at Hunter College, New York, on Thursday, 18 April 1946, at 3 p.rn. President: AFIFI Pasha (Egypt). Present: The representatives of the following countries: Australia, Brazil, China, Egypt, France, Mexico, Netherlands, Poland, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, United Kingdom, United States of America. 36.. Provisional agenda (document 5/41) 1. Adoption of the agenda. 2. (a) Letter dated 8 April 1946 from the representative of Poland addressed to the Secretary-General (document S/32).1 (b) Letter dated 9 April 1946 from the representative of Poland addressed to the Secretary-General (document S/34).2 37. Adoption of the agenda 38. Continuation of the discussian on the 5panish question Sir Alexander CADOGAN (United Kingdom): Toward the end of hisspeech yesterday, the Polish representative made an cloquent appeal to the Council in the name of Poland, which was lib- erated by all the United Nations. 1 can assure himthat such an appeal, coming from the repre- sentative of Poland, will find a sympathetic echo in my country, whichhad the honour of being the fust to dec1are war on Hitler in support of Poland. 1 can assure him aIso that my country, having fought through every day of two world wars~ is not insensible of the vital necessity of averting the recurrence of snch horrors. We, as much as anyone, havé·a direct interest in the maintenance of peace and in the enforcement and strict observ- ance of the Charter of the United Nati9ns. The Spanish question now before the Council is not so simple as it might at first sight appear. There are two aspects to it. It will be noticed that in his two letters addressed to the Secretary-General, dated 8 April and 9 April, the Polish representativ!" ·efe':S ta the situation "resulting from the existence and acthrities of the Franco regime in Spain". The