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City or Campus? In London, U.S. Delegate Arthur H. Vandenberg, who figured that the UNO committee had brought all its troubles on itself, rumbled: "Any suggestion that this organization needs anything like 45 square miles of high-priced area for its headquarters is fabulous and fantastic." Instead of spending up to $70,000,000 on land and buildings, why not settle for something the size of "a comfortable college campus...
Another question had to be answered: where would UNO meet in the interim? The selection committee had blithely settled on New York as temporary headquarters, but there was no certainty that New York could accommodate UNO. Atlantic City and San Francisco were eager and able to furnish the space. So was Boston. But there UNO ran into another problem-Russia's Delegate Georgii F. Saksin had blackballed Massachusetts as no fit place for UNO after Superior Court Judge John Swift's recent blast: "Godless Russia has torn the Atlantic Charter to tatters and enslaved millions of our fellow...
State Department officials began to wonder if turning a whole island over to UNO might not be a wonderful idea...
...military side, the students will learn about the atomic bomb and other new weapons which are altering the methods of war. On the statecraft side will be intense study of the "home front," of the foreign policies of the U.S. and all major powers, and of the UNO and other means of preventing...
...moment, UNO-mankind's fragile new device of peace-might fall apart beneath the weight of Russia's postwar drive to translate victory into expansion...