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...Marauders. "Two gaunt marauders-war and tyranny-" are abroad, he warned. "We must make sure that [UNO's] work is fruitful, that it is a reality and not a sham, that it is a force for action and not merely a frothing of words." UNO must be armed immediately with an "international armed force"-air squadrons under the direction of UNO...
Other newspapers were somewhere in between, but generally viewed with distaste and alarm the kind of military marriage proposed by Churchill. The consensus: such an alliance would only provoke Russian suspicion, already acute, and pull the props of trust and confidence right out from under UNO-or so they feared...
Everyone had carefully refrained so far from inviting UNO's Atomic Energy Commission to the forthcoming test at Bikini. Army & Navy preparations for that provocative display of power went on apace...
...idea where these moves and countermoves would lead, where or when a showdown would come-or whether there would be any showdown. The greatest worry was that Russia would flounce out of UNO and go her independent way. The President said hopefully that he did not believe she would...
Bevin with Knobs. Amidst all these alarms came Churchill's blunt speech (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), to carry still further the sequence of plain talking among the Big Three which began in January with the Bevin-Vishinsky clashes at UNO. Said a bitter left-wing Labor M.P.: "It was Bevin with knobs...