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...Will UNO Work? The onetime rabid isolationist reaffirmed his faith in a United Nations: "I do not share the melancholy pessimism heard in some quarters." Some phases of the London record, of course, were disappointing: "I confess that in this first meeting of the United Nations I missed the uplifting and sustaining zeal for a great, crusading, moral cause which seemed to imbue the earlier Charter sessions at San Francisco." He had sensed "a tendency to relapse into power politics ... to use the United Nations as a self-serving tribune rather than as a tribunal...
...this point UNO's Dr. Stoyan Gavrilovic arrived from London. "Greenwich," he sniffed, "is a very small area. I think we can do very nicely without it." He went farther. Any other protests from the rolling Westchester-Connecticut commuters' paradise would also be considered. But he still made it plain that UNO hoped to settle in that general area...
Many a citizen guessed that the UNO site argument had only begun. Protests had been eddying like fog over the 42 square miles which Gavrilovic originally recommended. And though the General Assembly had instructed him to draw up alternative plans for smaller sites, UNO still hoped to get lots of land. "What," asked Dr. Gavrilovic, "can you do with five or ten square miles...
...State Department spelled out the reasons last week why UNO could not admit Franco Spain. Fifteen documents recovered from Axis secret diplomatic files proved that Francisco Franco had been an even closer ally of Hitler than the world had supposed...
...John Foster Dulles, Manhattan lawyer, Republican internationalist, chairman of the Federal Council of Churches Commission on a Just & Durable Peace, Tom Dewey's foreign affairs adviser in 1944, U.S. delegate to UNO...