Word: drohojowski
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Assembly voted 39 to 6 that the Russian ban was "likely to impair the friendly relations among nations," and should be withdrawn. Poland's Jan Drohojowski, who voted against the motion, thought the Assembly had yielded to U.S. and Chilean "political acrobatics." The Assembly has been misled, he snapped, "by a feeling of sympathy for the young people, now that spring is here...
Even an ostensibly harmless action like the choice of Beirut, Lebanon, for next year's UNESCO conference, was an occasion of friction. Polish Delegate Jan Drohojowski, who had walked in & out of the conference in a constant huff, saw a last-minute chance for what he considered a crack at the U.S. He said he hoped that next year the delegates, "especially when they visit the neighboring Holy Land, will obey the Ten Commandments and not bow down to the Golden Calf...
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