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...Department of Public Information asked that the O be dropped from UNO. U.S. newspapers complied. But the French press, and much of the British...
...Last week, with all the exuberance that earned him an Oxford "half-blue" in featherweight boxing and made him a top Indian tennis "champion, Delegate Singh offered to show off his talent before a meeting of a trusteeship subcommittee. To help him he had a brand-new stooge named Uno, just purchased for $85 in Times Square...
...This fellow's still new," explained Sir Maharaj, "we haven't got quite used to each other yet." Committee members, press and public jammed the committee room. Sir Maharaj and Uno were just about to go into their routine. (Sample, as seen later by a TIME reporter-Singh: "Who're you?" Uno: "Oh, I'm Uno." Singh: "Do you have to use many languages out there?" Uno: "Oh, I get along on me Irish.") Then who should stalk in but austere U.S. Delegate John Foster Dulles. He whispered a discreet, wholly unofficial word in Singh...
Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg criticized U.N. for its self-inflicted title. (He would prefer UNO.) "Un what?" cried the distressed Senator. "It sounds like an emasculated affair. United Nations isn't that and can't be that. When you say, 'Un,' you haven't done anything but grunt." The Senator grunted...
Last week the United Nations' press section made a modest request: would the papers please take the O out of UNO, which was never christened an "Organization?" Manhattan dailies unanimously agreed to make a short headline word even shorter, although the sensitive Sun protested that UN is "merely a negative grunt . . . not half so pleasing to ear or tongue." Even the UNhospitable Daily News, which wants the outfit to get "com pletely out of the United States" (to northwest Mexico), went along. The press seemed willing to give U.N., at least on little things, every break...