Word: meadow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Until the very moment of public decision at Flushing Meadow, no one knew whether U.N. would approve partition. A two-thirds vote among nations voting in the full Assembly was needed to win final approval. In the middle of the week, defeat of the partition plan seemed probable. Nations like Haiti, the Philippines, Liberia, Greece, which normally follow the U.S. lead, said that they would vote no. Both the U.S. and Russia (together for the first time on a major issue) supported partition. But the very fact of U.S. Russian agreement seemed to free many smaller nations from the necessity...
...Certain Misgivings." The U.S. had carefully refrained from bringing open pressure on other delegations to vote for partition. But as an Arab victory became likely, U.S. officials in Washington, in Manhattan, at Flushing Meadow, began stating the case for partition more firmly...
...Palestine, as at Flushing Meadow, there was joy among Jews. In the early morning hours, when news of the U.N. vote reached Tel Aviv, cheering crowds danced the traditional hora. In Jerusalem and Haifa, jubilant thousands paraded the streets waving the blue & white Zionist flag. Even British Tommies joined in the fun. Jews began debating the name for their promised state. Most likely choice: New Judea, although ironically the tentative borders (see map) exclude from Jewish control most of ancient Judea...
...Flushing Meadow was a suburban pastoral of cold wintry sunlight and bare lonely trees swaying in a fitful wind. The building which housed the world's town meeting lay strangely isolated in the brownish-green emptiness of dead lawns. Inside, the modernistic public lobby was filled with people who had come for a quick look at history before the Second General Assembly of the United Nations adjourned. A group of children clustered around a counter as excitedly as though it displayed candy and comics rather than U.N. literature. A tall, blond boy jumped up & down. "Sammy," he cried, "Sammy...
Pathetic Fallacy. In the world beyond Flushing Meadow and the U.N. agenda, there was creeping crisis on a global scale-in Asia, in Europe, and in the minds of many men. Peace treaties had indeed been signed with Italy and other Axis satellites, but the countries still faced questions as grave as any that had been settled. No treaties with Germany and Japan were in sight. It had been Franklin Roosevelt's Grand Design, epitomized in his gamble at Yalta, that the West could reach an understanding with Soviet Russia. In continuation of the wartime alliance (and in exchange...