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Frederick Henry Boland's chances of becoming the next president of the U.N. General Assembly next fall already seem as surefire as those of a Democratic primary winner running in a final election in the Deep South. Last week he got combined backing of the U.S., Great Britain and Canada. Besides this powerful support, Boland can count on the consistent anticolonial stand of his native Ireland to help win Latin American and Afro-Asian nations. His rival, Czechoslovakia's Jiri Nosek, can count for sure only on the nine votes of the Communist bloc...
Though Ireland is a relative newcomer to the U.N. (1955) and has one of the smallest delegations, it has made a name" for itself out of all proportion to its size. Boland arrived at the U.N. just before Suez and Hungary shocked the world. On Suez, Ireland voted against France and Britain ("We felt the attack on Egypt endangered all small countries"), but criticized Nasser for provoking the attack. On Hungary, Ireland inspired and then co-sponsored the resolution that set up a five-nation committee of inquiry. Ireland has stepped on the toes of both sides in the cold...
With his beet-red face and grey hair plastered to his head, Boland resembles a jovial Irish publican, but the scholarly, Dublin-born diplomat finds as much relaxation in reading Latin and Greek classics as in Irish gin and whisky. A colleague at the U.N. considers Boland "far and away the finest chairman the Trusteeship Committee ever had." This delicate post was excellent preparation for the kind of diplomacy required of an Assembly president-knowing how to preserve decorum, when to persuade someone quietly to call for an adjournment, and when to press for a night session. The Assembly...
...right to fix a boundary to the march of a nation." A soft-spoken teacher of math who later joined the Sinn Fein (We Ourselves), "Dev" is still credited by legend with being the last rebel patriot to surrender during the Battle of Boland's Mills in 1916, and with being one of only 13 scholars who understood Einstein's theory of relativity...
...strong second in the early going, Tomy Lee took the lead in the backstretch but dropped back to second behind Sword Dancer at the mile mark. Admitted Jockey Willie Shoemaker: "I thought we were through. I hollered to Willie Boland (on Sword Dancer), 'I hope you win it.'" But Tomy Lee shrugged off his breeding, roared back in the last dozen strides to win by a nose. He was the first foreign-born horse to win the derby since 1917. His archenemy, First Landing, was a well-beaten third...