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...proposal that the U.S. give the atomic bomb to UNO, the objection was that, if the bombs and plants remained in the U.S. (were they could be seized in case of war), other nations could feel no more secure than at present. To proposals to control atomic bomb manufacture by international inspection, the objection was that, if inspection failed, the consequences would be fatal to all nations which had observed the rules...
Rarely had a treaty been so quickly proposed, prepared and signed. At UNO's London meeting, Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin had announced Britain's intention to give up its League of Nations mandate for Trans-Jordan. The following week King George invited Emir Abdullah to London. Within a month the negotiations had been completed. They left Trans-Jordan still tied to Britain by a fairly strong military and economic rope. Trans-Jordan was to provide facilities for the training and movement of British troops, and her communications were to be developed with British money and in consultation with...
...letter about it. Instead of mailing the letter, she took it to the New York Times, paid $693 to have it printed last week as an ad. Said Frankie Miller to Ernie Bevin: "Humbly I beg your Excellency to have the [liberation] of South Tyrol brought before the UNO. ... I also challenge the zone occupation of Austria...
...standard time zones; when it is after 5 p.m., March 31 in New York, it is already April 1 in Moscow. This week Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi, global-thinking president of the Pan-European Union, offered a solution to the Secretary General of the United Nations. He calls it UNO-time...
...UNO-time is an alphabetical variation of Greenwich Civil Time, a global time system used by navigators since the adoption of the International Date Line in 1884. G.C.T. runs for 24 hours, and is based on the position of the sun in relation to the prime meridian (Longitude 00° 00' 00") which passes through Greenwich, England...