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...UNITED NATIONS Subdued Quarrel One after another, the world's painful little problems become items on the U.N. docket. But while all eyes last week were on the most conspicuous of these, the U.N. General Assembly was in no mood to pursue other quarrels too far. Example: the two-year-old Cyprus revolt. This time the defendant was Britain and the complaining witness Greek rather than Arab, but the speeches were quite clearly some that had been left over from the Algerian debate of two weeks...
...sole interest in Cyprus was "territorial aggrandizement" and solemnly advanced the current Turkish ploy: if Greece insists on self-determination for Cyprus, Turkey will insist that the island be partitioned between its 400,000 Greek and 100,000 Turkish inhabitants. Patently determined to avoid entanglement in a quarrel between three NATO members, the U.S. earnestly entreated the U.N. to do nothing. "The adoption of these resolutions, irrespective of their possible merits," said U.S, Delegate James Wadsworth, "would exacerbate the situation." The Greeks were happy as long as the U.S. did not openly side with the British...
...negotiations "in accord with the principles ... of the U.N. Charter." Save for Afghanistan and Panama, both of whom abstained, every nation in the U.N. Assembly pounced, 76 to o, on this chance to sweep Cyprus back .under the carpet. "Afghanistan," mused Menon. "Well, they have a somewhat similar quarrel with Pakistan. As for Panama, I guess I was rude to the Panamanian delegate...
Billing himself as "An Evening of Culture at the Corcoran," chain-smoking Cartoonist Al (Li'l Abner) Capp strolled into the Washington museum, ripped joyfully into modern art while his listeners choked, fretted and guffawed nervously. Capp's special quarrel was with the pure abstractionists-"that small group of the unbalanced who sell shameless products through a larger group of avaricious and unprincipled to an enormous group of the totally dazed." Aren't the abstractionists' products good for anything? Sneered (Ugh!) Critic Capp later: "They'd make good neckties for Elks' conventions...
...episode among NATO partners matches the savage anti-Greek riots that swept Izmir and Istanbul the night of Sept. 6, 1955. Until then the mutual quarrel over Cyprus had been furiously propagandistic but not violent. That night, ostensibly aroused by reports of an explo sion in Salonika that damaged the birthplace of Turkey's late great Kemal Ataturk, the rioters swarmed through the streets wrecking and smashing anything Greek. In one night of Turkish terror, 300 people were injured, 4,000 stores looted, 78 Greek Orthodox churches gutted...