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Norman John Oswald Makin had come a long way. Last week the errand boy from Broken Hill, who entered Australian politics at 19, was host at a dinner for his fellow UNO leaders at the swank Savoy in London. Russia's terrifying Vishinsky was gaily talkative on his right, and China's Wellington Koo suavely quiet on his left...
There was that letter (addressed fraternally to "Dear N. Makin") from old-time Bolshevik Dmitry Manuilsky, who as chairman of the Ukrainian delegation* ran the Russian show until Vishinsky finally arrived from his lengthy briefing by Stalin and Molotov. The letter asked Makin for a UNO probe of British activities in Indonesia. In the same delivery came a similar note on Greece from Andrei Gromyko, Russian ambassador to the U.S. and Russian member of UNO's Assembly. With Iran's appeal against Russian interference in Azerbaijan already on the Council docket, Makin was suddenly in the center...
Earlier in the week Eleanor Roosevelt had pleaded for frankness among the delegates; before the week was out their candor could be cut with a knife. Catastrophe did not result from plain speaking; issues everyone had dreaded were not so dreadful after all. UNO was going noisily but well...
Spatting. While this hot fight was going on in the Security Council, the UNO Assembly had its wrangles too. Old-rose, well-upholstered Paul-Henri Spaak, the Assembly president, relaxed in his old-rose, well-upholstered chair on the blue-&-gold rostrum, sometimes made a note with a gigantic goose quill, quickly handled awkward situations. One spat came after Ambassador Gromyko had urged that the Communist-backed World Federation of Trade Unions (W.F.T.U.) be granted UNO representation. Peppery Premier Peter Fraser of New Zealand spoke up angrily: "Unless we get a resolution with which Mr. Gromyko agrees on every...
...statesmen of the UNO the atomic bomb is something of a headache, but to L. Don Leet, associate professor of Geology, it is just a divining rod. According to observations he made at the original trial of the bomb in the New Mexican Desert, released to the press last week, the atomic bomb will be useful not only for Japanese slum clearance and the disposal of the USS New York but also in finding oil and plotting earthquakes. Leet, who makes a hobby of collecting earthquakes, revealed that the atomic bomb added something new to seismology that has heretofore been...