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...there any objection?" asked Assembly President Paul-Henri Spaak of Belgium...
...Said Mr. Spaak: "There being no objection, I declare that the resolution on principles governing the general regulation and reduction of armaments is unanimously adopted by the General Assembly...
Uruguay and New Zealand (Roberto MacEachen and Sir Carl Berendsen) tried to escape from the room, were testily waved back to their seats by the Chair (Paul-Henri Spaak). The Ukraine (Dmitri Manuilsky) prodded sarcastically: "Who is to decide which are the 'great classics of human thought?' Human thought has taken some very capricious turns at times! Very capricious. ..." (Lebanon's own uncapricious selections: Plato, Aristotle, St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, Shakespeare, Leibnitz, Pascal, Descartes, Kant, Averroes.*) The matter was referred to the Assembly, to be referred back to a committee...
United Nations Week (Sun. 4:30 p.m., NBC). First in a series of special network programs saluting the opening of the U.N. General Assembly. Speakers: Dean Acheson, Acting Secretary of State; Paul-Henri Spaak, U.N. Assembly President; Trygve Lie, U.N. Secretary General...
...hitting Foreign Minister Herbert Vere Evatt (rhymes with rev it) was spokesman for the small nations as he had been at San Francisco; he went to bat for a simple majority rather than a two-thirds' majority rule. He was bitterly seconded by Belgium's Paul Henri Spaak, chairman of the Rules Committee: "The great powers. . .attempt to impose upon us rules of voting which in practice prevent us from securing acceptance for our points of view. . . . Finally . . . they ask us to make them a few recommendations...