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...succeeding in the Congo and has failed in Goa. This is a decent average, and Lord Home should not be so quick to criticize. He should worry, as Adlai Stevenson has done, about how to strengthen the UN executive, so that there is a possibility of its acting consistently for peace...
...uphold India's case at the U.N., he ran true to form. Asked during a London stopover if Mahatma Gandhi would have approved of the Goan invasion, Menon snapped: "Well, he's not here, is he?" A possible clash between Menon and the U.S.'s Adlai Stevenson from the rostrum of the General Assembly was avoided when the two men met in private, thus depriving the Assembly of a spectacular verbal display...
When the Security Council blocked any action against India's aggression in Goa, Adlai Stevenson, recalling the League of Nations' failure to oppose aggression, gloomily warned: "We are witnessing the first act in a drama which could end with [the U.N.'s] death." British Foreign Secretary Lord Home, criticizing the U.N. action against Katanga, warned that Britain might withdraw its financial support. In Washington there were demands for congressional investigation of U.S. policies toward...
Private Enterprise. The Mitropoulos Competition offered a first prize of $5.000, as compared with the $3,000 offered by Belgium's Queen Elisabeth Concours and the $2,500 won by Cliburn in the Tchaikovsky Competition. The scope of the competition was all the more remarkable, said U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson in a final-night address, because the Mitropoulos contest gets no Government support. The competition is completely supported by private contributions-the first and second prizes were donated by Philip Morris International and The Samuel Bronfman Foundation...
These days, there is only one small sign that Romagna's pen is slowly tiring: the old nightmare has given way to a daydream in which Adlai Stevenson is President. This latter-day reverie has nothing to do with Romagna's political preference. To him, all men, including Presidents, are measured by the quality of their syntax, platform delivery and oral timbre. Using these criteria, Romagna says Stevenson would be a cinch to transcribe. "Adlai's English was made for the shorthand system," says Jack Romagna. "It's marvelous. He has a grand command...