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The United Nations ran into new troubles last week in its attempt to keep its big glass house to the satisfaction of its host. From a seven-man U.N. tribunal came a ruling that eleven Americans, fired from the U.N. staff because their loyalty to the U.S. was questioned, had...
In the case of seven, the tribunal ordered U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold to pay legal fees of $300 each and damages ranging from $6,000 to $40,000 (for an "anthropologist and African specialist" whose field, the tribunal said, was so narrow he would be hard put to find...
Of some 40 fired in the past year (all but one by Hammarskjold's predecessor, Trygve Lie), ten others had appealed for similar redress, but nine temporary employees were turned down by the tribunal, and another case was referred to the lower U.N. Board of Appeal.
The tribunal's ruling brought protests in the U.S. The American Legion passed a resolution condemning the tribunal. Senator William Jenner, involved in the investigation that inspired the original firings, warned that the U.S. could withdraw its financial contribution to U.N.-some 331% of the U.N.'s $41...
Every Frenchman knows Calvados, the fiery Norman applejack, but few knew much about the man from Calvados. When Joseph Laniel rose in the tribunal of the National Assembly last week to make his bid to become Premier of France, he brought to that jaded assembly something of the freshness of...