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Sachar's call for teachers brought a flood of lively volunteers. Trustee Eleanor Roosevelt still teaches a course on the U.N., bringing the immediacy of what "Franklin"hoped for it in 1945 or what U Thant said at tea last week. With his usual furious energy, Conductor Leonard Bernstein developed the music department. Archibald MacLeish, W. H. Auden and e. e. cummings have lectured on modern poetry. Arthur Miller taught drama, and Columnist Max Lerner commutes from Manhattan to give a course on American civilization. Says Dean Clarence Berger: "We keep telling students they're taking people...
...Yale Political has lamentably ignored all the important questions. Precisely what the U.N. can accomplish; its future in light of a Congo expedition of which many of its wealthier members disapproved; the usefulness of a bond issue; the legitimate scope of its activity; the sort of man U Thant is--appear to be outside the magazine's concern. Y.P. has attracted big names, but it must know by now that active officials with jobs to keep and little time to spare can rarely be counted on to contribute original and specific ideas--especially on problems so diffuse...
...Afro-Asians showed similar restraint about the rebellious Portuguese colony of Angola and about Ruanda-Urundi, the little Belgian-run territory east of the Congo that is due to get freedom next July 1. One proposal would have ordered Belgian troops to leave by that date, but U Thant pointed out that neither the U.N. nor the new country itself could possibly train troops quickly enough to keep law and order; sensibly, the Africans and Asians last week rewrote their motion to let the Belgians stay on temporarily-thereby avoiding what could have been another Congo...
Strategic Planning. Throughout the session, Burma's U Thant, the man who finally was chosen to take over Hammarskjold's vacant post, performed his difficult task admirably. In the Congo crisis, he was tough and fast on his feet; his quiet diplomacy helped get Indonesia and The Netherlands to agree to negotiate the West New Guinea dispute. Along with respected President Slim, U Thant kept the Assembly serious and businesslike; in many ways, delegates found him more decisive than...
...Thant's proposal, even if accepted by the General Assembly and Congress, contains several difficulties. American financial buttressing would be expensive and would hardly encourage punctual contributions from other members. Both the U.N. and the United States would have to parry the accusation that the world organization was a tool...