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...considered opinion last week became the basis of a heated debate in U.N.'s high councils. Among the fanciers of Sam's sandwiches is Hector McNeil, British delegate to the U.N. General Assembly. Last week McNeil rose in the Assembly. "I am informed," he said, "that Mr. Gromyko and his colleagues live in a luxurious well-walled dwelling on Long Island ... I plead with Mr. Gromyko ... to escape from these . . . luxurious fastnesses, to go to a delicatessen, to a drugstore on a bus or a subway, where the normal hard-working . . . man and woman meet ... [He will find...
Poland's Juliusz Katz-Suchy quickly jumped to Gromyko's defense. McNeil, he said, must have been visiting "the delicatessen of the Waldorf-Astoria. People in my delicatessen talk differently." When a newsman later asked where his pro-Russian delicatessen was located, Katz-Suchy impatiently brushed him off. "I often eat in delicatessens," he said evasively, "all along Sixth Avenue...
Russia's Andrei Gromyko lumped the veto question with the North Atlantic pact. The pact, he cried, was a direct. threat to Russia; moreover it was in violation of the U.N. charter. It took McNeil no time at all to demolish Gromyko's argument. "No one fears, or need fear the Atlantic pact, if their intentions are pacific . . ." he said. "Those to whom the thought and methods of war are utterly repugnant . . . will welcome the Atlantic pact...
...Committee, the Russians promptly made a grab for partial control of the Italian colonies. The U.S. (backed by Britain) wanted to give part of Eritrea to Ethiopia, proposed giving Britain U.N. trusteeship over Cyrenaica, and Italy trusteeship over Italian Somaliland. The U.S. and Britain, rasped Russia's Andrei Gromyko, were trying to divide up the colonies "as if they were sitting at a table drinking champagne." He demanded a joint U.N. trusteeship (in which the Russians would participate...
Russia's charges were made before the United Nations Assembly in a bitter full scale attack on the New Atlantic Treaty by Andrel A. Gromyko, number one Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister...