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...Fiddler. In 1959, Josephine Bay married Michael Paul. The son of a surgeon who became a general in the Imperial Russian army, Paul was born in Ulanvdinsk, Outer Mongolia. As a schoolboy, he studied violin in St. Petersburg in the same class with Heifetz. When he was twelve, Paul enlisted in the army, rode off with the Cossack cavalry, was wounded and captured by the Germans. He escaped from prison camp and made his way across Siberia, China and Japan-fiddling for his board and keep...
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...
...having it declared a substantive issue-or one requiring a two-thirds majority). Pressure was brought to bear on Nationalist China's Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek by President Kennedy, Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Ambassador to Nationalist China Everett Drumright to give up his veto of Outer Mongolia. Chiang refused to budge; he feared that membership for Outer Mongolia was only the first step in the U.N. recognition of Red China. Bitterly, he sent a letter to France's Charles de Gaulle, asking for his help in threatening or importuning the French Africans; De Gaulle replied that...