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...Micronesians had ever heard of the United Nations Organization, let alone the plans for UNO trusteeships of Pacific islands. King John and his 1,557 neighbors simply knew what they wanted...
...loving-cup tempest over the world capital seethed and bubbled. One group of irate citizens banded together into a Committee for the Preservation of Greenwich-keep UNO out. Other citizens formed a smaller Greenwich Citizens Committee-bring UNO in. The Stamford Hills Association screamed like a porker that sees the knife. Some 10,000 other Stamford citizens signed petitions of delight...
Suggestions flew like criss-crossing rockets. Connecticut's Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce said sadly: "It's unfortunate UNO couldn't have picked a place where it would be more welcome." The New York Times dug up the fact, and printed it as a broad hint, that "Mr. Roosevelt felt that the Azores would be an ideal place for a world capital...
Bubbling with happiness, Norwegian Labor's Lie joined Belgian Labor's Spaak and Australian Labor's Makin in UNO's high command. Lie called a press conference, waved his arms at the reporters, bellowed: UNO will be bigger, stronger, sounder than the League of Nations ever...
...Russian UNO delegates have been saying in private that anyone who thinks Russia can find the time oj energy to attack Turkey, move into the Middle East, or farther expand in eastern Europe ought to know more about the great problems and troubles Russia has on her hands at home. They then explain, sounding as if they were quoting President Mikhail Kalinin's speech (TIME, Nov. 19) to Communist Party organizers on how to meet the unrest rising from the relative luxury the Red Army saw in eastern Europe...