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Britain's Sir Gladwyn Jebb delivered the free world's telling reply. A brilliant career diplomat, a trusted counselor of Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin and one of U.N.'s architects,* Sir Gladwyn had just taken over from Sir Alexander Cadogan as chief British delegate. Said he: "No amount of photographs of Mr. Dulles in a trench-and I only wish there had been more trenches-no suggestion that he himself first rushed across the frontier, no repetition of arguments which a child could refute . . . can obscure the patent fact that it was the North Korean troops...
...Yalta in 1945, after Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill had agreed on San Francisco and April for the opening U.N. conference, there still remained an argument over the exact day. From the back of the room, Sir Gladwyn called: "Why not start April 25-that's my birthday." Amid laughter, the 25th...
Britain's Sir Gladwyn Jebb and France's Jean Chauvel introduced a joint Anglo-French resolution that welcomed "the prompt and vigorous support" which the world had given U.N.'s earlier Korea actions; they urged "a unified command under the United States," and asked the U.S. "to designate the commander of such forces...
...Zoologist Gladwyn Kingsley Noble of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History, fish are not gawping, cold-eyed nonentities, but personalities as ambitious and sociable as human beings...