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...almost two hours since the Security Council had adjourned for "five minutes." The five major members, still bickering over Greece, were having it out in a back room, guarded by red-and-blue Royal Marines. Those who were waiting knew that UNO was in crisis; few suspected how serious the crisis was. (Behind the closed doors Britain's bear-like [250 Ibs.] Ernest Bevin threatened to leave the room and to make Britain leave the Council. They did not know that Russia's sharp, suave Andrei Yanuarevich Vishinsky retorted that he was all ready to withdraw from...
...Crisis. At the core of UNO's first great test was, as many had predicted it would be, the Security Council's veto power. Russia's Vishinsky, in his best prosecutor's manner, had formally accused the British of endangering the peace by maintaining an army in Greece. Bevin had bellowed Britain's demand for clear acquittal of this charge. When it looked as though Bevin would win, Vishinsky threatened to use his veto...
Then Vishinsky proposed that a UNO commission of inquiry be sent to Java. Blustered Bevin: "His Majesty's Government will not take that." The best hope of compromise seemed to be outside the Council; the Dutch Government offered Indonesians self-determination "in our time...
...roaring collective-bargaining days, Labor Leader Ernie Bevin shouted and pounded the table-but he did not stop bargaining. He "gave it to 'em for fair" (a favorite Bevin phrase), and the Russians were not happy. But they were still in UNO, and UNO was still in one piece. The piece was much more of a piece than it had been before...
Game of Darts. UNO had shown the Russians that the Security Council could not be used for petty tactical maneuvers. It had not, of course, really reconciled the basic forces in conflict between Great Britain and Russia; the forces were irreconcilable. It was UNO's job to deflect and cushion such forces, prevent them from colliding and exploding into World War III. The London meeting made it plain that the nations, pressed from below by war-sick peoples, had accepted UNO as the place of settlement-at least for the present...