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...What is the objective?" barked Hodgson. "To remove the Franco regime. But does the Polish delegate really think severance of diplomatic relations is going to accomplish that objective? Is the Soviet delegate really serious? . . . Action such as that is likely to strengthen Franco...
...Spain is a menace we [will support] everything we can do under the Charter." Even sober-sided Andrei Gromyko grinned. By the time Hodgson was through, the Australian delegate had enough votes to back the principle of a Council subcommittee investigation to decide whether Spanish Fascism is a domes tic matter or a threat to world peace...
...Before Hodgson intervened, Russia had the U.S. and Britain over a barrel. No one seriously believed that Franco was about to go on the warpath, and Gromyko had no constructive proposal on how to get rid of him. But if Stettinius and Cadogan voted tacit aid & comfort to Franco by defeating Gromyko, Russia could use that fact to advance her own ends, from Trieste to Tokyo. If the West continued to do nothing about Franco, it would in crease the chance that his successor will be more Communist than democratic...
...right to keep Iran on the agenda. The Council referred the letter to its Committee of Experts, who lined up as the Council had, eight to three against the Lie interpretation. As a consolation prize, Lie saw his first ball game (Giants 8, Phillies 4 - see PEOPLE), while Hodgson sat beside him, cracking peanuts...
Trygve Lie and fellow U.N. delegates went out to the ball game, dined ball-gamely. Lie tucked in hot dogS, Australia's Lieut. Colonel William Roy Hodgson nuzzled peanuts, The Netherlands' Dr. Eelco N. van Kleffens crunched a candy' bar. Observed a member of the secretariat: "It's a crazy country...