Word: mauritania
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Britain voted to support the resolution, because it recognizes Red China. The African vote showed that the U.S. had gambled successfully for African sympathy in the Mauritania-Outer Mongolia deal (in which the U.S. prevented a Russian veto of Mauritania's admission in exchange for not vetoing Outer Mongolia...
With the admission of the new African nations into the U.N., Russia finally had a means of forcing the issue. Ignoring the prohibition on package admissions implicit in the U.N. charter, Russian Delegate Valerian Zorin offered the West a deal: Outer Mongolia for Mauritania, one of the newly independent nations in the "Brazzaville group," twelve former French territories...
Zorin had two things going for him: the U.S. and Nationalist China wanted to keep Red China out of the U.N., and the Brazzaville group wanted Mauritania in. Privately, the Brazzaville group threatened that if the West and Nationalist China vetoed Outer Mongolia, forcing a retaliatory Russian veto of Mauritania, they would support the admission of Communist China...
...French Africans; De Gaulle replied that he dared not intervene lest the Brazzaville group be aroused against France. Finally Chiang gave in. Decrying Russian "blackmail." Nationalist China walked out of the Security Council, but did not veto; the U.S. abstained, permitting Outer Mongolia's "unanimous" admission. Moments later, Mauritania too was admitted, becoming the U.N.'s 103rd member...