Henderson Daily Dispatch

Wheeler Is Favorable To Charter

Washington, July 24 - (AP) Senator Wheeler declared today he will vote for ratification of the United Nations charter, "a declaration of pious intentions," but he promised a real fight over limiting the use of American troops.

The Montana senator, long a bitter foe of American intervention in European affairs, took the Senate floor during the second day of debate on the 50-nation agreement after Democratic Leader Barkley had asserted the new league "will succeed if the peoples of the world will that it shall."

Wheeler criticized Allied control of Germany, which he visited earlier in the summer.

"By the provisions of this charter," Wheeler said, the people of all eastern Europe are denied the principles and the rights embodied in the Atlantic charter. And as between the victor powers there is not a single international convention, covenant or principle in common among them to which the people of eastern or central Europe can appeal, or by which any decision, agreement or compromise among the big three must be bound."

Wheeler voiced a grave fear that the charter will even take away from the people of America the right to be heard on the crucial issues of war and peace in the future. He will vote for it reluctantly, Wheeler said, on the strength of statements made to the foreign relations committee by John Foster Dulles, adviser to the American delegation, that the powers of the United States representative in the security council will be spelled out in subsequent legislation.