Word: byelorussia
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...term ending, the U.S. decided the time had come to break the "gentlemen's agreement" completely. Buttonholing other delegations, it argued that the Communists-by siding with the aggressors in Korea against U.N. -had lost all moral right to the seat. The U.S. proposed Greece. The Russians proposed Byelorussia, a Soviet state which is no more entitled to international standing than Mississippi, except that at Yalta, Roosevelt and Churchill agreed to recognize it (and the Soviet Ukraine) as full-fledged U.N. members...
...delegates ran into trouble. At least half of the 20 Latin American nations, angry because the U.S. had joined a move to give one of Latin America's four World Court judgeships to India, indicated they would vote for Byelorussia. So, to the dismay of the State Department, did Great Britain. Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden believes that East-West relations have become so frozen that a little pliability on small things might thaw Russia out. After all, said the British, Russia already has one veto on the Security Council, and one more small vote for the Russians could...
Deadlock. By the time balloting came, the U.S. was still trying hectically to piece together what Moscow likes to call the "Americans' automatic majority." But it could not. On the first ballot, Greece got 30 votes, considerably short of the required two-thirds majority, to Byelorussia's 26. Seven ballots later, Byelorussia was ahead, 32 to 27, and the deadlock remained. "In these circumstances," intoned the acting Assembly President, Britain's Sir Gladwyn Jebb, "we should postpone the election in order to give us all time for reflection...
Against: Burma, Byelorussia, Czechoslovakia, India, Poland, the Ukraine, Soviet Union...
...less than fruitful week for the U.N. At one point during the Political Committee's debate, as a Byelorussian delegate kept sledgehammering away on a procedural point, Fayez El-Khouri of Syria sighed: "We cannot all withstand the pressure of these meetings. If the representative of Byelorussia has a strong nervous and physical system, I confess that for my part I sometimes need rest, moral and spiritual rest...