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Many diplomats, however, fear that Chiang's plans will boomerang. If Nationalist China does explode the "package deal," the indignation of Arab-Asian countries and many Latin American nations may be so great that there will be a serious effort to eject Nationalist China altogether from the General Assembly at this session. The US might be hard put to block expulsion, even though success in preventing the ouster would require only one-third of the sixty-nation Assembly...
This is the latest step in a chain of events which earlier saw Radcliffe eject the Children's Theatre from Agassiz because the director and two co-producers of its recent "Alice in Wonderland" netted $312 apiece from the show. This profit making jeopardized the tax-free status of the College...
Dressed in the awesome uniform of a jet pilot, the visitor from outer space brought noise and confusion to the supposedly sound-proof study halls. Assistant Librarian P. A. Putnam was unable to extract a bursar's card from the intruder, Putnam did, however, manage to eject the spaceman from the premises. The CRIMSON photographer was also exiled...
Hardly had the delegates taken their seats and begun the formalities when up shot the hand of Russia's Andrei Vishinsky. This gesture, now considered as predictable as the arrival of the autumnal equinox, was the signal for Russia's annual demand that the Assembly eject Nationalist China and put Communist China in its place. With only a slight change from last year's line-up (e.g., Denmark switched to the pro-Peking side), the Assembly voted 43 to 11 to put off Red China's bid for another year. Vishinsky took the accounting gracefully...
...controversial: colonialism cut sharply across friendships, alliances and cold-war loyalties when Indonesia demanded debate on its proposal to eject the Dutch from Western New Guinea and Greece demanded a plebiscite to decide whether strategically prized Cyprus should remain British or go to Greece. The U.S., on the spot between its anticolonial instincts and its Allies, abstained in both cases. In balloting that joined Latin Americans, Arabs and Israelis with the Communists and split the five signers of the new Manila Pact three ways, the Assembly voted to take up both cases...