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...post he had occupied. Then came the savage Katanga war, in which U.N. forces fought to put down Moise Tshombe's rebellion against the Congo's central government-a conflict in which many felt that the U.N. had no business taking part. Many of the new Afro-Asian nations, which now made up nearly half of the Assembly membership, were widely written off as automatic Communist allies. On all sides there were gloomy predictions that the U.N. was near death...
...Assembly record proved that there is no such thing as an Afro-Asian bloc with clear loyalties or affiliations to either East or West. In this situation, the West can accomplish a great deal with patient buttonholing, explaining, cajoling and bargaining-as was shown again last week when Cuba's delegate sought to brand the U.S. with harboring "new plans of aggression" against the Castro regime. The men from Havana could find no African or Asian "neutralist" willing to introduce their Assembly resolution, and when the measure (finally introduced by Outer Mongolia) came to a vote, many...
...interference in the internal affairs" of Cuba. "Uncle Sam,'' cried the Cuban delegate, "took his trip to Punta del Este carrying a bag of gold in one hand and a bloody dagger in the other." Apparently, the Reds hoped to draw anti-U.S. support from the Afro-Asian bloc. But the Afro-Asians seemed to regard it all as an inter-American quarrel. Brazil, speaking as a member of the so-called "soft six" at Punta del Este, told the U.N. that Cuban membership in the OAS was a family affair that the OAS was capable...
Instant Wording. Despite occasional strains in U.S.-Indian relations, old India hands rate Galbraith as potentially the best ambassador Washington has sent to New Delhi. The job has been eased for him, he admits, by trends that began during the Eisenhower Administration-increased U.S. concern for the unaligned Afro-Asian nations, the view that free, non-Communist countries should qualify for aid without having to join military alliances. Of his predecessors. New York Businessman Ellsworth Bunker and Kentucky's U.S. Senator John Sherman Cooper were exceptionally able and well liked, while Chester Bowles, though popular at the time...
...countries in the U.N., but there have been some successes. In the matter of Red China's U.N. membership, for instance, 19 black African nations, largely as a result of a frank political deal and skillful U.S. lobbying, did not side with Peking. Only last week the 50 Afro-Asian nations made no move to block a U.S.-backed condemnation of Red China as an aggressor against Tibet. U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Harlan Cleveland believes that the "colonialism" issue may soon run out of steam ("A lot of the delegates regard it as a bore"), because there...