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...hotly disputed question of whether expert delegates to the commissions should be able to speak for themselves instead of their governments, Russia last week was working both sides of the street. Eleanor Roosevelt had held out for experts who could freely give their own views. Russian Delegate Nikolai I. Feonov disagreed, said that only if delegates are "representatives of their governments can useful work be done," otherwise the commissions would be mere "discussion clubs." Russia carried the point; by a vote of11-to-5 Ecosoc decided that members of all council commissions should sit as government representatives...
...four days later Nikolai Feonov insisted that the World Federation of Trade Unions, a non-governmental body claiming to represent 66 million workers in 56 nations, should be permitted to take part in all Ecosoc activities with all privileges of a member state, except that it would have no vote. The council, more consistent than the Russians, defeated the proposal...
...drinks? A big blonde? A punch in the nose? You can get it in Detroit-wholesale. The atmosphere in Detroit is large; it differs from that of the diplomatic capitals of Europe. This does not mean that Detroit cannot handle a diplomat now & then. Take last week. Soviet Ambassador Nikolai Vassilievich Novikov was entertained for two full days. And he could tell he wasn't in Budapest...
That was last February. In March U.S. G-men in Portland, Ore. arrested a young Russian naval officer, Nikolai Redin, for spying. Next month Moscow police called Ruess, who had almost forgotten the Army Day episode, and summoned him to court. The charge: khuliganstvo (hooliganism...
...Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's least known operas is Tsar Saltan. A skip-along scherzo in its second act has become one of the inevitable pieces in any violinist's repertory: Flight of the Bumblebee. Last week Rimsky-Korsakov's little earsore was a strong jukebox nickel-puller, helped by a steady left-hand beat, and a new name: Bumble Boogie...