Word: berendsen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...touch-an assemblage of political arachnids busily spinning a web of Whereases and Be-It-Resolveds. "The flow of speech and the spate of words in the United Nations are quite incredible and in time become insupportable.'' complained New Zealand's delegate. Sir Carl Berendsen. Pakistan's Zafrullah Khan once talked for two days, and set a U.N. record. Britain's Selwyn Lloyd, listening to the same interminable speech by Soviet, Polish, Czech, Ukrainian and Byelo Russian delegates, remarked in Oxonian tones: "If I may lapse into the idiom of bebop, just dig that cracked...
Australia and New Zealand accepted enthusiastically, and signed the Tripartite Security Treaty (as well as the Japanese treaty). Australian Prime Minister Robert Menzies beamed: "One of the great events in international affairs." Sir Carl Berendsen, New Zealand's ambassador to the U.S., said: "This is much more than a scrap of paper...
...Zealand's blunt, able Sir Carl Berendsen is a great & good friend of the United Nations, an organization he helped to found, but his friendship does not blind him to its drawbacks-its intrigue, its financial irresponsibility (the way delegates like to travel at someone else's expense), or its futility. Last week, having quit after six years as New Zealand's chief delegate, Sir Carl got his opinions off his chest at a meeting of the U.N. association back home in Wellington...