Word: gladwyn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Britain's Sir Gladwyn Jebb...
...authority back to the International Court of Justice at The Hague. The Court probably won't get around to deciding until mid-January; in the meantime, the Council wanly hoped that Britain and Iran would resume negotiations on their own. Said Britain's Sir Gladwyn Jebb: "... A most serious precedent...
This week, at Flushing Meadows, the Security Council began its hearing. Britain's chief U.N. delegate, Sir Gladwyn Jebb, flew the Atlantic to state the British case in his crisp fashion. Law seemed to be on his side: last July the International Court of Justice called for maintenance of the status quo in Iran until the oil dispute could be settled by negotiation...
...course, a few details went awry. The model was on hand, but "my very dear friend who carefully wrote down her commentary," Stacey dolefully announced, "took . . . um ... a different route." Some of the star guides were also missing. Undergraduate Miles Jebb, son of the U.N.'s Sir Gladwyn, did not show up to conduct the tour through Magdalen College ("He's so tired of being his father's son"). Nor did the Hon. Antonia Pakenham, whose bailiwick was Lady Margaret Hall ("She had her parents down yesterday...
...Council decided, he said in a statement to the press, "that, because of the private nature of Sir Gladwyn's visit, no publicity be released on it while he was here." Thus no mention of the visit appeared until Monday, two days after he left for New York...