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Dates: during 1940-1949
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France's General Charles de Gaulle declared that the Atlantic pact had lost most of its efficacy. Intoned the sepulchral voice of Paris' Le Monde: "Whatever the future of the giants . . . Europe is bound to be abandoned to herself . . . She no longer guards the 'fire' of the century . . . War or peace will be decided by others...
...glow seemed to spread over the whole General Assembly on its opening day of firmly fixed smiles and heavy hand-pumping. Delegates exchanged greetings with an almost perfectly uniform ritual: strong right-hand clasp, affectionate left-hand pat on the back. The official nurse, on duty just across a corridor from the General Assembly Hall, dispensed only one headache powder the first day (to a Chilean delegate...
Black Array. The fagade of banalities, already cracked, soon crumbled. Next day, Assembly Chairman General Carlos P. Romulo of the Philippines, a neat, brisk figure always dressed in immaculate black, was presiding with proud relish when he got the news of the year. A U.S. correspondent passed him a note: "President Truman has just announced that Russia has the atom bomb. Amen." Trygve Lie, at Romulo's side, scribbled a quick reply: "If true, it makes the U.N. all the more indispensable." Then he sat back to await Andrei Vishinsky's scheduled address...
...Said he: "During the past two years, while the dike from the Persian Gulf to Scandinavia was built against the flood of Communism, the Far East has been inundated . . . Can the United Nations maintain its prestige . . . by ignoring what has taken place in my country? . . . I appeal to the General Assembly to be brave enough to embrace the vision of one indivisible world and not to retreat to the false illusory security of half a world...
Last week, the Budapest burlesque reached its inevitable finale. The "defense" faithfully cooperated. Said Rajk's lawyer: "He was only a tool. Such crimes as his could not exist if there were no warmongers." Said the lawyer for Lieut. General Gyorgy Palffy, former chief of staff of the Hungarian army: "I must defend this man in spite of the loathing I feel...