Word: gladwyn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...found the project endangered no legitimate Arab interest. This was sure to madden the Syrians, and gave the Russians a chance to curry Arab favor. Russia cast its 57th Security Council veto, its first in a Middle East dispute and its first against Israel. Warned Britain's Sir Gladwyn Jebb: "This is a melancholy and sinister occasion-melancholy . . . for future international cooperation; sinister, because of its implications for the cause of peace in the Arab world...
...Gladwyn Jebb...
...armed forces fighting under the U.N. flag. The other consists of the Communists." In the U.S. view, it follows that the U.N. ought not to invite either Russia ("definitely not on our side") nor India (which had no fighting forces in Korea). Lodge tried to persuade Sir Gladwyn Jebb, but the British found Lodge's stand "unrealistic," and when Canada and France sided with Britain, a first-class row ensued...
...Haverford, Pa., Sir Gladwyn Jebb, Britain's U.N. delegate, threw out the first ball in a cricket match between Haverford College and a British embassy team. Sir Gladwyn also revealed that 1) cricket is not as popular as it once was in England, 2) it is abominated in Ireland and Scotland, and 3) he, himself, dislikes cricket intensely. Score of the game: Embassy 81, Haverford...
...resolution, put the U.S. on record on the question of U.N. membership for Red China. But they did nothing to ease the tensions between the U.S. and its allies. Last week, in the wake of the President's congressional crisis, Britain's U.N. Delegate Sir Gladwyn Jebb took it upon himself to say a few words on the subject for the edification of the graduating class at Haverford College. Said Jebb: "It is surely not very logical to accept the presence in the U.N. of the Soviet Union, while refusing even to contemplate at any time the presence...