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...talk that pleased them less. Lebanon's Charles Malik, president of the U.N. General Assembly, and Carlos Romulo, Philippine Ambassador to Washington, both declared that the U.S. is losing prestige in the eyes of other nations. Malik said that "the number of countries which either vote against or abstain with respect to texts sponsored or supported by the U.S. has been on the increase in recent years." Said Romulo, a longtime friend of the U.S.: "The once ingrained belief in the Asian mind of the invincibility, the superiority and the invulnerability of the West is gone, forgotten...
...fury at defenseless, white-haired Novelist Boris Pasternak. Pasternak himself, after first telegraphing his joyful acceptance, seven days later refused the Nobel Prize awarded his poems and his novel, Doctor Zhivago: "In view of the meaning given to this honor in the society to which I belong, I should abstain from the undeserved prize . . . Do not meet my refusal with ill will." Still the screaming invective poured out, and the U.S.S.R. spilled it across the world without shame...
...Welcomes the renewed assurances given by the Arab States to observe the provisions of Article 8 of the Pact of the League of Arab States that 'each member state shall respect the system of government established in other member states' . . . and that 'each shall pledge to abstain from any action calculated to change established systems of government...
...German-speaking Deputies from autonomous border regions, and the support of Typewriter Tycoon Adriano Olivetti, who captured one seat for his "Community" movement, Fanfani presumably could count on a precarious majority of two. But the left-of-center Republicans and the right-wing Monarchists have indicated that they will abstain on the initial vote of confidence in order to assure Fanfani's investiture...
...said. "Atomic armament can only mean eventual unhappiness-and perhaps destruction-for the German people." But if only West Germany would agree to "remain free of nuclear weapons." either on its own decision or by NATO agreement, the Soviet Union in event of war "would be prepared to abstain from using nuclear weapons against any object whatsoever in the Federal Republic." Brentano was taken somewhat aback by this specious proposal but quickly rebutted: "We will throw away all our weapons, of every kind, if the Soviet Union would do the same. Let us work towards a regularized disarmament agreement...