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There was that letter (addressed fraternally to "Dear N. Makin") from old-time Bolshevik Dmitry Manuilsky, who as chairman of the Ukrainian delegation* ran the Russian show until Vishinsky finally arrived from his lengthy briefing by Stalin and Molotov. The letter asked Makin for a UNO probe of British activities in Indonesia. In the same delivery came a similar note on Greece from Andrei Gromyko, Russian ambassador to the U.S. and Russian member of UNO's Assembly. With Iran's appeal against Russian interference in Azerbaijan already on the Council docket, Makin was suddenly in the center...
Hands & Heads. The United Nations Preparatory Commission had planned for secret ballots to protect the right of smaller countries to vote against their more powerful neighbors. Now the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic asked a show-of-hands vote in the election of the Assembly's first President. By a show-of-hands vote, the Ukraine-and all Russia-lost...
...exactly 9:30 p.m. A woman announcer in a black dress stepped to the platform. Said she: "In the name of the fatherland there will be a salute to the gallant warriors of the First Ukrainian front who have broken the defenses of the Germans - 20 volleys of artillery from 224 guns." The dark days of Stalingrad were over; the Polish offensive of January 1945 had begun...
...Gawd Bless You All!" The fight on Monday, April 30, over the admission of authoritarian Argentina was another real crisis. Molotov saw his chance and took it; the U.S., having made the Latin countries support the earlier admission of Russia's Ukrainian and Byelorussian republics, was committed to bring Argentina in, too. Although the Russians were roundly beaten on the vote, they looked as happy as a tiger that had swallowed a young parrot. They had a moral issue that they could use forever after...
...Ukrainian-born Philip Jacob Jaffe, 48, wealthy Manhattan greeting-card manufacturer, who, along with Miss Mitchell, edited and published a little magazine called Amerasia, devoted to plugging the Chinese (Yenan) Communists and criticizing the Chiang policies which the U.S. State Department supported...