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...think the South Africans had it coming to them," said Rupert Emerson '22, professor of Government, "but I'm skeptical if it will have much real effect." Emerson added that many of the Afro-Asian bloc nations who voted for the resolution have already applied boycotts of South African goods and that three quarters of that nation's trade is with countries who voted against...
Hoffmann and Emerson agreed that the Afro-Asian countries were inconsistent in seeking South Africa's expulsion from the U.N. at the same time that they sought to obtain Red China's admission. "However," said Hoffmann, "consistency has never been a forte of the Afro-Asian nations." Emerson felt that "South Africa is obviously a state in existence just as Red China is. They should both be in the United Nations." Hoffmann maintained that "If South Africa were the only problem on the U.N.'s shoulders, things would be all right...
...Sanctions against South Africa's racist regime were proposed in an Afro-Asian resolution calling for a worldwide boycott on South African goods, a break in diplomatic relations, and possible expulsion from the U.N. if the Verwoerd regime does not mend its ways. The measure passed by 60 to 16, with 21 abstentions. The vote pointed to a double standard: South Africa's regime, reprehensible though it is, can hardly be considered worse than the Red Chinese tyranny, but 23 Afro-Asian delegates who voted sanctions against South Africa also voted to admit Red China...
...week long, the nations angrily debated Cuba. The Security Council's first meeting developed into a sparring match in which Russia's vulpine Valerian Zorin and Cuba's bouncy Mario Garcia-Inchaustegui tried, with ridicule and invective, to outscore U.S. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson. That night, 45 Afro-Asian neutralists huddled in a conference room below the Assembly Hall to come up with a resolution that might avert a showdown between the two nuclear giants. Someone forgot to turn off a public-address system, and their secret deliberations blared throughout the U.N. One gloomy listener said the neutrals...
General Assembly, he had not a word to say about Cuba. In his notably restrained speech, he inevitably put Algeria in the ranks of the Afro-Asian neutralists, ex pressed the expected sympathy with "our brother Arab people in Palestine," and urged economic help to undeveloped countries, including Algeria...