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...bowls of fresh pineapple and sherbet. Then followed filet mignon, vegetables, a magnificent baked Alaska, and fruit again. Cracked the U.S.'s Ernest Gross: "I thought the meal was over three times before it was." Asked if it had been a Russian dinner, Britain's Sir Gladwyn Jebb sardonically quipped: "Not Russian-Edwardian. It was one more proof that the Soviet Union is 40 years behind the times...
...recorded program, lets Stateside newsmen cross-question front-line reporters via short wave and telephone. ABC's United-or Not? (Mon. 10 p.m., E.D.T.) turns newsmen from as many as 20 countries loose on outstanding United Nations' diplomats. Last week, even Britain's urbane Sir Gladwyn Jebb found the drumfire of questions hard to handle. Some he met squarely ("No, I don't think Soviet Russia should be tossed out of the U.N."); some he dodged ("I can't answer questions about Formosa in public...
...Russia's yakking Jacob Malik (see cover), Britain's Sir Gladwyn Jebb demanded scornfully: "Are we really to believe that the boys from Iowa or Colorado who are now sitting in foxholes near Chin-ju . . . are out, like Genghis Khan, to enslave the world? Show me any one of these U.S. soldiers, Mr. President, who would rather reign in Outer Mongolia than go back to Seattle, and I will gladly concede your point about 'imperialist America.' Until then...
While Malik droned on, the other ten delegates sat patiently around the horseshoe table. From the ceiling, television lights glared down on the high-domed head of Britain's Sir Gladwyn Jebb, the pince-nez of the U.S.'s Warren Austin, the long nose of France's Jean Chauvel, the doodling hand of China's Tingfu F. Tsiang...
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...