Word: successfully
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lake Success, meanwhile, news of the Palestine cease-fire raised high hopes. Members of the U.N. Committee on Palestine, meeting briefly, agreed that Egyptian and Israeli representatives should meet with U.N. Mediator Ralph Bunche on the Island of Rhodes this week to hammer out the terms of a permanent armistice. With nothing further to do, the committee then adjourned happily into the unseasonal Long Island sunshine...
After three months in the hurly-burly of Paris, the U.N. was back last week in its well-ordered plastic tower at Lake Success. The air was heavy with French perfume from over there. The freshly waxed green and candy pink corridors rang with cheery greetings of homing travelers. But there was little to be cheerful about...
...Lake Success, only Dutch Representative J. H. van Royen had kind words for his country's action. U.N.'s Good Offices Committee, which has been trying to mediate between the Dutch and Indonesians, gloomily suggested it might as well quit. Philippine Representative Carlos P. Romulo deplored the Council's "labyrinthine self-justifications." Australia's peppery Norman Makin cried that the Security Council could not "bury its head in the sands of Lake Success." Indonesia's L. N. Palar warned: "This is only the beginning of our war of self-defense...
...sands of Lake Success, the Council adjourned to have another go at the case this week. It was as though U.N. had never left home...
...They Are Equally Wrong." Last week Father Dunphy appealed, with small chance of success, for an ecclesiastical trial. "It is true that I have spoken four or five times against the regime," he said, "but I have always spoken as a priest, as a Christian, and as a Catholic. Priests all over the world today have taken up the fight against Communism on the same grounds-and of course I am among them. But there is totalitarianism of the right and the left, and from the moral and religious point of view they are equally wrong...