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...delegates had only one certainty: if Iran was not allowed to speak up in meeting,, no small nation could ever put its trust in UNO...
...killed in an automobile accident." Next day the Council held an executive session, while Gromyko took a ride (see below) without an accident. But other Russian representatives attended the meetings of the Committee of Experts and the Military Staff Committee, and Russia transferred $1,7 23,-ooo to UNO's bank account, the Soviet Union's full quota of UNO dues...
Northern Lights. Byrnes proposed that UNO ask both Russia and Iran to report officially on the status of their negotiations, wanted answers by April 2. Other delegates suggested April 4 because "magnetic storms" were delaying communications. Chairman Quo Tai-chi compromised on April 3. While UNO waited for the Russian and Iranian reports, Pravda called the whole crisis "artificial," and pronounced further discussion of the case "superfluous" in the light of "the mutual understanding reached regarding evacuation of Soviet forces from Iran...
...that afternoon. Instead, he rode in a black Cadillac through three miles of New York streets. His change of venue might have been a wise one, for the great question before Gromyko and his Russian colleagues did not lie in the Council room, or in the phrases of the UNO Charter, or in Iran. The streets and fields of the U.S. held the answer they sought. From where the Russians sat, the riddle was: would the U.S., over the next few decades, be able to make its policy felt in the world? Or would its power decline, frustrated by internal...
...warily and worriedly. He spoke with a Frenchman's concern for le mot juste, suggested compromises with a quiet desperation. In his suite at the Hotel Pierre he served his colleagues sherry and petits fours. At week's end, no one was more relieved than he that UNO still held the Big Three...