Word: skrzeszewski
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...nominated the Philippines' Carlos Romulo, who won only five votes (U.S., China, Colombia, Greece, Pakistan), two less than needed, and was counted out. Russia named Polish Foreign Minister Stanislaw Skrzeszewski, who got only one vote (Russia). Denmark proposed Canada's Lester Pearson, and many believed that he would not be actively opposed by Russia. Pearson overcame the first obstacle with nine votes (U.S., Britain, France, China, Chile, Denmark, Pakistan, Colombia, Greece), but fell before the second, a Soviet veto (its 56th in the Security Council). The ballots, which are supposed to be secret but aren't, were...
...major problem since only a wax dummy could never politically offend either side. Obviously, Russia will no more endorse a national from the Western sphere of influence than the West will approve any citizen of a satellite country. This climinates Canada's Pearson, the Philippines' Romulo, and Poland's Skrzeszewski. The Kremlin has scored in Asia by announcing its lack of opposition to either Mme. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit or Sir Benegal...
...Manhattan last week, ten years later, Stanislaw Skrzeszewski, representing Red Poland at the General Assembly, rose early and departed from his hotel room for the U.N. The maid, making his bed, discovered beneath his pillow a loaded .38-caliber revolver. She called police, who, on learning the identity of the owner, suggested that Foreign Minister Skrzeszewski get a pistol permit. Headlined the irreverent New York Daily News: "GUN IN UN BIGGIE'S BED; LOUD DITHER, LITTLE ACTION." Skrzeszewski has otherwise distinguished himself in U.N. by his pleas for disarmament...
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