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...nation could not quite believe that UNO was really in danger of blowing up. The land of the airborne custard pie and the quick punch in the nose, of the goon, the stink bomb, the special deputy and the Bronx cheer had never found peace very peaceful. In the midst of their own private postwar fights over wages, rents and nylons, many a U.S. citizen saw nothing out-of-the-way in the United Nations quarrel over Iran...
World politics had never seemed so fully divorced from furtiveness and formality, from striped pants, heel clicking, and shiny tables in big, guarded rooms. Almost before the first Bronx meetings began, two A.F. of L. unions had a vehement jurisdictional argument over the television camera in UNO's council chamber. People representing something called "The Committee for Non-Violent Revolution" picketed delegates at a cocktail party in Manhattan, were noisily hauled away by the cops. Some 2,000 newspaper and radio men-181.8 for each delegate-swarmed like lightning bugs, flashbulbs popping...
...bartender named Moe Green, hired to mix drinks for the Hunter College lounge, promptly invented a UNO cocktail (vodka, French vermouth, Swedish punch and a dash of orange bitters.) "It's a beauty," said Moe. "It'll make sour tempers sweet, and have 'em all talking the same language-if they can still talk." One Joe Forestieri, proprietor of a Bronx hash-house called the College Luncheonette, prepared to re-name it UNO Joe's. He explained carefully: "You could take it in two ways." Gate crashers schemed to get into UNO meetings with a vigor...
...delegates themselves were remarkably harried and human. Even the Russians seemed less than inscrutable when they were discovered cooking borscht on electric plates in their rooms at the Plaza. And there was something comforting about hearing the world's great men blowing their noses over national radio hookups. UNO's microphones picked up all sorts of odd dialogue. At one point a female whispered urgently: "When you are ready, bang and get them out." Just as urgently, Council Chairman Dr. Quo Tai-chi of China replied: "I haven't got anything to bang with. They have deprived...
...Military Government deal with such a feudal society? For the loss of Bikini, compensation should be paid. But to whom? Will it be democratic to pay Juda rather than his people? If Juda gets the bounty, will that not mean de facto recognition of his regime? Is this a UNO problem...