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Almost the victim of the Russian "troika" scheme, the United Nations now faces financial paralysis. Last week U Thant, the Secretary General, proposed floating a two-hundred million dollar bond issue in order to save the organization from complete collapse. This unusual proposal reflects a malady which has rapidly worsened during the Congo crisis: the failure of members to pay their assessments both for regular operating expenses and for special operations. The Soviet Bloc alone owes more than forty million dollars, including its share of the Congo expenses, which it absolutely refuses to pay. Nationalist China holds second place with...
...about it. chaps-shall we try flying in?" With this impeccably cool remark, addressed to two Swedish U.N. pilots in the Congo. Major Richard Lawson made his debut as a British hero. As a backdrop for heroism, the U.N. of U Thant is not an entirely satisfactory substitute for the empire of Victoria, but the British press, starved for tales of British valor in distant places, splashed Lawson of Leopoldville all over the front pages. Henceforth, trumpeted the Daily Express, he would be "known to the world as Dick the Lionheart...
Floating among West Coast cabaret tables is a new line about a fellow who is writing a play. The scene is the United Nations and the title is U Thant, Take It With...
...John Kennedy, the week was something of a grind. There were the big statistical messages, his first press conference in six weeks, a speech to Democratic fund raisers in Washington's National Guard Armory, a flying trip to Manhattan to see Acting United Nations Secretary-General U Thant. He did get to see Broadway's top musical How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, but otherwise he left the gracious life in the capable hands of his capable wife, Jackie Kennedy...
...identically worded notes to Djakarta and The Hague, U.N. Acting Secretary-General U Thant urged both governments to refrain from "precipitate action" and resume negotiations aimed at seeking a peaceful solution. Netherlands Prime Minister Jan de Quay accepted U Thant's proposal, reported that his military commanders had orders to act with the "utmost restraint." At week's end, Indonesia's Sukarno agreed to negotiate a settlement "in conformity with the purposes and principles of the U.N. Charter...