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...Barred Franco Spain from UNO...
...UNO's first session in London, the Security Council...
Eleanor Roosevelt led the opposition, her voice shrill with emotion. "What is propaganda?" she asked. "Are we too weak in the United Nations to let people hear whatever they want to hear?" Until oppositionists could return home "unscathed and unhampered," she urged that UNO aid those who refused to go back. The packed galleries gave her a rousing ovation. Vishinsky retorted with a typical Soviet twister: "No democracy can permit tyranny to do what it wants. . . . We refuse to accept such tolerance." The UNO General Assembly backed Mrs. Roosevelt...
...Says No? In two other Russian fights during UNO's last wearing week, Vishinsky traded tactical loss for strategic gain. The Security Council voted down his demand for an Indonesian investigation, which gave Russia her chance to pose before the world's dependent peoples as their UNO paladin...
Russia donned Mussolini's old mantle as Protector of Islam. Syria and Lebanon had protested against the presence of British and French troops. Tireless Ed Stettinius (who did an effective job of conciliation at UNO) finally got British and French agreement to withdraw "as soon as practicable." Vishinsky, who had argued the strong Levantine case brilliantly, would have none of this compromise...