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...members, still bickering over Greece, were having it out in a back room, guarded by red-and-blue Royal Marines. Those who were waiting knew that UNO was in crisis; few suspected how serious the crisis was. (Behind the closed doors Britain's bear-like [250 Ibs.] Ernest Bevin threatened to leave the room and to make Britain leave the Council. They did not know that Russia's sharp, suave Andrei Yanuarevich Vishinsky retorted that he was all ready to withdraw from the Council if the Soviet Union's honor and dignity were further impugned...
...core of UNO's first great test was, as many had predicted it would be, the Security Council's veto power. Russia's Vishinsky, in his best prosecutor's manner, had formally accused the British of endangering the peace by maintaining an army in Greece. Bevin had bellowed Britain's demand for clear acquittal of this charge. When it looked as though Bevin would win, Vishinsky threatened to use his veto...
...sweating councilors had tortured their brains and their vocabularies to contrive a verdict that was no verdict at all. One suggestion: let the Council note the debate, along with a British promise to withdraw the troops. Cried Bevin: "Really, I am not so childish as to fall for that." Another suggestion: let the Council declare that Britain's troops in Greece were no danger to peace but would be withdrawn, anyway. Cried Vishinsky: "I will vote against...
After nearly three weeks of maneuvering in the dark, U.S. Delegate Edward R. Stettinius called a Big Five meeting, tossed Lie's name in as a "compromise candidate." Britain's Bevin said it was well worth considering, but he would like to consult his Government. Vishinsky, recalling criticism of long delays while Moscow thought problems over, voted a loud and prompt yes. In the General Assembly only three votes were cast against...
Britain's Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin had bluntly charged that the Polish Government's secret police used wholesale murder in order to intimidate the Polish electorate. The victims were members of the middle-of-the-road Polish Peasant Party, led by Vice Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk. Last week U.S. Secretary of State James F. Byrnes repeated the charge...