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...leading candidate was Athenagoras. The church needed a leader whose 18 years' breathing of U.S. democratic air might fortify him against the efforts of Moscow's Patriarch Alexei to bring all the Eastern churches "home." to Russia. The Turkish government (unofficially Moslem) unofficially indicated that it would be "very, very satisfied" by Athenagoras' election. The only opposition came from those who opposed the election of a non-Turk or who resented the obvious political interest of the Turkish government and the Western nations...
...Nobody Is Perfect." In the Human Rights Commission last week, the Soviets' Alexei Pavlov launched one of his routine tirades against the U.S., which usually range far afield to cover the atom bomb, lynching, and warmongering. Up rose Eleanor Roosevelt to make a soft but effective answer: "I do not want to make more bad feelings here ... I want to try to have us, when we have to say that we do not agree, say it on the idea, and as courteously as we can. [We should] be perfectly honest and frank about our objectives, not attack ourselves more...
...Obsolete Doctrine. Russia's frantic insistence on national sovereignty was also demonstrated in the Commission on Human Rights, which was considering a worldwide Bill of Rights. Russia's Alexei Pavlov promptly cried that it represented interference with Russian sovereignty. Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak summed up the West's position when he cried: "We fear you when you preach this antiquated, obsolete doctrine of national sovereignty...
...that in the Soviet Union and in the popular (i.e., Soviet satellite) democracies "all the problems of youth have been solved." The Federation's suave French Communist President Guy de Boisson suggested the resolution be modified to say they were "on the road to solution." Snaoped Soviet Delegate Alexei Klimov: "That may be true in popular democracies. But in the Soviet Union they are solved...
...Nicholas-how nice to see you again!" cried History. "Wherever have you been? And the Tsarina Alix! Your four charming daughters, I presume-gracious, but those bullet holes are disfiguring. And the little hemophiliac-Tsarevich Alexei! Ah, yes, I understand-doomed for a certain term to walk the night. . . . Why, I've scarcely given you a thought since that time when the Communists threw your bodies down the mine shaft in Ekaterinburg [now Sverdlovsk]. Whatever brings you here...