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...American delegation decided to continue supporting a proposal asking the Security Council to reconsider its rejection of U. N. membership applications from Ireland, Portugal, Trans-Jordan, Albania and Outer Mongolia...
Sullen but Resigned. Liberals, Socialists and leftist republicans were sullen but resigned. Communists, who were already fighting in the north, were verbally ferocious, but nonviolent. The Government charged that Communist-led guerrillas in the north were being armed from Yugoslavia, Albania and Bulgaria, and that foreign military units were operating on Greek soil. Premier Tsaldaris called it war. The British said they would intervene only at the Government's request -but they shipped in more troops from Egypt and Palestine...
...Security Council (at Lake Success, N.Y.) was officially treated to a study of Balkan problems last week. The subject: Greek-Albanian border incidents. The occasion: the submitting to the Security Council of reports by the Governments of Greece and the Socialist Soviet Republic of Ukraine (acting for Albania). Some distressing details: one Demetrios Drallios of Argyrochorion, a Greek, reported the loss of a mule; one Aliko Yaco of Radat, Albania, complained of the disappearance of an ox. Each Government charged the other with provocative acts. Among them: whitewashing frontier markers without permission; sending soldiers to slink about and ring cowbells...
...stern-faced Delegate Andrei Gromyko had been caught smiling (see cut); 2) after a 5,500-mile journey, the Mongol delegates had arrived. The cause of Gromyko's smile: U.S. comic strips. Occasion of the Mongols' visit: the question of Outer Mongolia's admission (together with Albania, Portugal, Eire, Iceland, Sweden, Afghanistan and Trans-Jordan) to the U.N. Result (after a stormy exchange between U.S. Delegate Herschel Vespasian Johnson and an unsmiling Gromyko) : three admissions (Afghanistan, Sweden, Iceland); the rest were rejected...
...Those sponsored by Russia and blackballed by the West were Albania (Greece complained that it had a Communist-dominated, dictatorial, warlike regime) and Outer Mongolia (China observed that it had been an "independent" nation only since last year, had not shown yet whether it was peace-loving...