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Shouted Poland's Oskar Lange in the Security Council: "To hell with high power politics ... to hell with all technical obstacles...
...Communist Boss Ernst Fischer and, until he was suspended last week, deputy editor of Vienna's Communist-dominated newspaper New Austria. Reason: in the midst of a vigorous Communist campaign against "former Nazis" allegedly working for Austria's Socialists and Christian Democrats, untractable Socialist newspaperman Oskar Pollack discovered that Communist Heinz was himself a former Nazi...
...Therefore Leave. . . ." When the debate made it clear that only Poland's Oskar Lange agreed with him, and that Iran's Hussein Ala would be heard in spite of the Russian objection, Gromyko announced: "I am not able to participate further in the discussions . . . and I therefore leave the meeting." He waited for the French and English translations of his statement before rising. Then he pushed back his chair, straightened his black double-breasted coat and walked briskly toward the far door, followed by his three advisers. His normally pale face was flushed. For the first time, Jimmy...
That evening bumbling Oskar Lange tried to minimize the withdrawal by suggesting that Gromyko has absented himself as any delegate "might have to do if he were, say, sick, or got killed in an automobile accident." Next day the Council held an executive session, while Gromyko took a ride (see below) without an accident. But other Russian representatives attended the meetings of the Committee of Experts and the Military Staff Committee, and Russia transferred $1,7 23,-ooo to UNO's bank account, the Soviet Union's full quota of UNO dues...
...Oskar Lange was the pedantic Pole. The rotund onetime teacher and U.S.-naturalized citizen, who now serves as Warsaw's Ambassador to Washington, squirmed, mugged and needled his way through the discussion. He listened with smug approval to his own high-pitched voice, glanced around beamingly for the laudatory nods and bobs of his four advisers. The more satisfied he seemed with his role as apologist for Russia and cross-examiner of Iran, the more pronounced became his facial...