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Item: Natives of Greenwich, Conn., threatened with eviction on behalf of UNO, huddled morosely. On Bikini Atoll, threatened with eviction because of atomic experiments, natives also huddled. The Devil, in either case, might take the hindmost...
...Bevin spoke, the Empire was creaking in a high wind-and its troubles had a direct connection with Russian pressures. Prime Minister Clement Attlee told Parliament that "leftwing elements and Communists" had fanned the Bombay mutiny. Whether they had or not, Russia's championship of dependent peoples at UNO had obviously aggravated widespread colonial unrest...
...Military Staff Committee set up an executive to meet in New York and lay groundwork for a UNO police force...
...Mounties had not moved immediately, for several reasons. For one thing, evidence had to be complete. Furthermore, delay enlarged the catch. Most important, perhaps, were diplomatic considerations that smelled strongly of appeasement: premature disclosure of the plot might have meant a rupture with the Soviet Union just as UNO was gathering for its first meeting...
...There were dissenters. Many a thoughtful U.S. citizen asked what State Department policy was, anyhow. Why had Edward R. Stettinius Jr. and idealistic Nelson Rockefeller, presumably having much of the dope on the Argentines at the time, led the fight for Argentina's admission to the UNO at San Francisco last April? Others, including many a Latin, noted that the U.S. attack came at the climax of the Argentine presidential campaign, called it intervention...