Word: gladwyn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chinese Red envoy barked on, the U.S.'s Austin sat, large and unhappy in a rumpled brown suit, wearing his translation phones like a crown of thorns. Britain's Sir Gladwyn Jebb listened with the urbane equanimity a Foreign Office man must pull on along with his drawers and socks while dressing each morning. Secretary General Trygve Lie, a ponderous, uncomfortable figure in blue, his hand plunged deep inside his coat, seemed a Falstaff, cast, under protest, as Napoleon. Yugoslavia's Ales Bebler, presiding, wore a sleepy, slit-eyed look of boredom. Nationalist China...
...political front the Western powers seemed to be doing just about what Communist China wanted. Last week British Delegate Sir Gladwyn Jebb proposed that the U.N. Security Council invite Mao Tse-tung's government to send representatives to the forthcoming U.N. discussion of General MacArthur's report on Chinese intervention in Korea (TIME, Nov. 13). U.S. Delegate Warren Austin argued that since Communist China was the aggressor the invitation should be called a "summons." Snapped Russia's Jacob Malik: "When a colonial power speaks to a colonial slave it may 'summon...
From the New York Society for General Semantics to Britain's chief U.N. delegate Sir Gladwyn Jebb went a scroll, for his job of "unmasking the propaganda technique of upside-down language" used by Soviet delegates...
...Within 60 seconds after he took over the Security Council presidency in September, Britain's Sir Gladwyn Jebb bypassed the Soviet obstructionism, invited to the Council table...
Tsiang's appearance will be part of a program of speakers sponsored by the Council that will include Sir Gladwyn Jebb, Dr. Ralph Bunche, and Sumner Welles...