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More than slightly baffled, the UNO committee set off for London to report their decision to the delegates of all nations. Their departure passed unnoticed by the citizens of Connecticut-Westchester, who were too busy arguing, holding impromptu town meetings in their homes (see cut) and petitioning Congress, which must agree to give up sovereignty over the area before UNO can have...
...Kurils deal gave added ammunition to U.S. proponents of outright U.S. annexation-as against administration under UNO trusteeship-of such wartime Pacific bases as the Marshalls, Marianas, Carolines and Okinawa (which occupies roughly the same strategic position to the south of Japan as the Kurils do to the north...
Every day since UNO's General Assembly opened Jan. 10, two or three hundred Britons have lined up on the narrow curb opposite Westminster's Central Hall. They stand there, watching and silent, as the delegates come & go, waiting for something, asking the simple questions that all men ask. Peace or war? Want or plenty? Or, more likely in Westminster these days: "What's up, guv'ner? Those blokes getting anywhere...
...Assembly and its committees proved that they could be true world forums, free in debate and capable of decision. The world's will to feed the hungry, require in trusteeship a new sense of responsibility toward the weak, and in the new Economic and Social Council to see UNO take on real jobs for real ends, turned out to be an effective will. Things got done...
Frank Ferocity. But it was in the Security Council that UNO's great promise-and great, as yet unmastered dangers -emerged. The very arm of UNO which everyone expected to be a fatally throttling arm turned out in its first tests to be UNO's strength...