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...have deprived me of the instrument with which to function." All these were little things, but they made UNO something as believable to U.S. newspaper readers as the U.S. Congress or a C.I.O. convention. Perhaps not enough Americans were aware of the gravity of the Iranian problem and Ambassador Gromyko's walkout (see INTERNATIONAL). But few had ever really expected that nations could negotiate more quietly than John L. Lewis and the coal operators. This week UNO's negotiations had reached the critical point. But the tense and nervous voices of the delegates had made the dream...
...very simple, said Andrei Gromyko: Moscow and Teheran had already settled their dispute and UNO need not bother to consider the case. The Netherlands' sharp-nosed, sharp-tongued Eelco van Kleffens pressed for the exact nature and terms of what Gromyko had referred to as "an agreement," "an understanding," and "negotiations...
...Shto zdes neyacno?" snapped Gromyko ("What is there here that isn't clear?"). But with Russian troops still in Iran and no documents available on the alleged agreement, the other Security Council delegates at UNO-in-The Bronx were more confused than they liked to admit. Was the Red Army moving out or just moving around? Had wily old Premier Ahmed Gavam made a private deal with Stalin...
Hotels had allotted 1% of their transient space (625 rooms) to delegates, but problems still arose. At the dignified Plaza, onetime haunt of the late F. Scott Fitzgerald, bullet-headed Soviet agents looked for a room for Ambassador Andrei Gromyko, turned down one with a balcony for fear a capitalist might rope his way up to the window with a roscoe. China's Victor Hoo knocked at the wrong room at the Waldorf-Astoria, was handed a bundle of laundry, had to exercise the utmost diplomacy to get the woman inside to take it back...
Gone was the grand manner and blue & gold magnificence of San Francisco and London. The delegates sat round a curved committee table in a light-paneled room that had been a basketball court two weeks before. Before the 51-minute opening session was half over, Andrei Gromyko was reading the paper. He looked up startled when the audience laughed at a high-flown French reference to le President du Bronx...