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...Successfully negotiated new cease-fire terms through India's Sir Benegal Rau...
...bitter end, India's Sir Benegal Rau deplored the U.S. resolution branding Communist China an aggressor in Korea. It would take the world, he warned the U.N. General Assembly, down the road to disaster. It would mean: "No early ceasefire, every problem in the Far East unsolved, the atmosphere for successful negotiation vitiated, the tensions in the Far East perpetuated...
...Minister, Colonel Ben Limb, spoke. Discussion as to whether or not aggression had taken place in Korea, said Limb, seemed to his suffering people "a sickening mockery." If Korea fell, he asked, how long would it be before the Communist tide reached India? But India's Sir Benegal Rau did not hear the question; he spent the whole day in the lobby, surrounded by clusters of delegates, trying to make converts...
...shaft of lightning in extempore debate. He can bumble well-meaningly as he did during the 1948 Israel crisis, when he urged disputatious Arabs and Jews to get together and "settle this problem in a true Christian spirit." He cannot match India's Sir Benegal Rau in subtlety and sophistication. Britain's Sir Gladwyn Jebb is his superior in verbal riposte. But Austin sallies into U.N.'s polemic fray with certain granitelike inner qualities: tenacity, common sense, Old Testament righteousness, and a God-fearing faith in the cause of freedom and collective security...
This made sense-so far as it went. But Rau made it clear that India also opposed sanctions or any "other steps" for U.N. collective resistance to Chinese aggression...