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Eleven days after the U.S. formally proposed it, the U.N. Assembly voted a strategic embargo against Red China and North Korea. Russia's Jacob Malik and Soviet satellite spokesmen growled: "Illegal . . . shameful." India's Sir Senegal Rau fretted: "[It] may add to the difficulties of an honorable settlement by creating yet another psychological hurdle." Turkey's Selim Sarper retorted: "[It] is only a beginning and a modest one." At debate's end, an overwhelming U.N. majority agreed with the Turkish spokesman, swiftly brushed protest and doubt aside. The Assembly approved the measure...
...departure did not ruffle the little Long Island village whose hopeful name the U.N. had made famous in the far corners of the world. No ceremony marked the occasion. In the committee rooms, where Molotov, Gromyko, Malik had ranted and been answered by the champions of the free world, a rearguard of U.N. staffers stuffed their briefcases with forgotten oddments. War workers from the Sperry Gyroscope Co. (which is taking over the whole of its buildings for expanded war production) were crowding the huge cafeteria where Foreign Ministers, stenographers and visiting movie stars had stood in patient lines for lunch...
...Malik compared two resolutions before the U.N. Assembly's Political Committee. One was the U.S. resolution calling on U.N. to 1) declare Communist China an aggressor, 2) study the possibility of "future collective measures" against Red China, 3) establish a good offices committee that could negotiate with the Chinese Communists when & if they were ready...
Debate between the supporters of the two rival resolutions had droned on all week. Lebanon's Malik sprang a surprise: he announced that "with good conscience" he would vote for both resolutions. The weight of his speech, however, was on the side of the U.S. resolution. The delegates, he said, could do one of four things...
...part, said Malik, he would only follow Course No. 4. Said he: "The U.S. is indispensable for the system of collective security. Nothing must be done, therefore, to discourage the American people's vigorous interest in leadership in U.N....We do not believe in peace at any cost...