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...Cannon's final action in Belgrade was to defy the Soviet Union by refusing (along with his British and French colleagues) to attend a cocktail party for the delegates. To the last he was true to the Krshinich method of warding off evil...
Cavendish Welles Cannon is one of the State Department's ablest, most diligent desk diplomats. A U.S. newsman once remarked that Cannon had the worried manner of a village postmaster who had mislaid the day's mail. Cannon kept insisting, in his almost inaudible voice, that the conference should be conducted on "technical" rather than political lines. The Communist majority rode roughshod over the contention...
Nevertheless, the Communists were highly sensitive to the few thrusts that the British and French delegates (but not Cannon) managed to get in. When the British proposed that the question of free navigation on the Danube for all nations be ruled on by the World Court, Vishinsky said that the Court's judges were incompetent on the issue because they could not be impartial. "I don't accept the contention that politics ends where law begins. Law is the instrument of politics...
Stones at the Chairman. On the conference's last day, Cannon made a statement. Said he: "When we came here, the Danube River was dead to international trade ... As we leave here, there will be no change...
...Then he put the treaty to a vote, clause by clause. In 23 minutes, he whipped his boys (and Mme. Pauker) through the required 58 votes. Once, one of his stooges forgot to raise his hand; Vishinsky nudged him: "Hey, pay attention." Fifty-seven times, as he voted "abstention," Cannon's arm shot up like a railroad signal gone wild; the 58th time (when the draft as a whole was put to the vote) he voted "no" but was, from habit, listed as abstaining again. He rose to his last skirmish: "Mr. Chairman, there has been an error . . ." Vishinsky...