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Russian diplomats have a short way with sentimentality. Last week the first issue of the United Nations News, an eight-page, letter-size monthly established by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, reported this conversation in London between UNO's chief Russian Delegate Andrei A. Gromyko and chief U.S. Delegate Edward R. Stettinius...
Russian Delegate Andrei Gromyko (Soviet Ambassador to Washington) objected. Apparently the Russians were afraid that the committees appointed at the first meeting would invade the agenda-planning prerogatives of the permanent councils. (Most of the small nations in the Assembly would like to do just that.) Gromyko insisted on a continuous session, the plenary meeting following immediately after the organizational...
...point Gromyko was in danger of being summarily voted down. Finally he was placated by laborious restrictions upon the committees to be appointed at the first Assembly, which was to meet in December...
Again, when the Russians wanted to limit the subjects the General Assembly could discuss, Moscow was notified that if the U.S.S.R. did not back down by noon the next day (June 19) it would be outvoted on the floor of the conference. Promptly at noon, Soviet Chairman Andrei Gromyko backed down...
After talking things over with Hopkins, Stalin told his delegation head, Ambassador Andrei A. Gromyko, to go nine-tenths of the way toward agreement. The U.S., Britain, China, France readily traveled the other tenth, and the conference surmounted its worst crisis...