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...darker hours ahead, some delegates would say thanks to the gallant old Church of England. When the Methodists ruled that UNO's delegates could not drink intoxicating liquors in Central Hall, the Anglicans had opened up Church House not 200 yds. away, and permitted establishment of the best-stocked bar in London...
President Spaak, looking like a bald, cosmic frog, took the chair. He guided UNO so well during the first three days that some suggested him for the prized post of Secretary General...
Hottest Rumors. Suddenly rumors swept the meeting that General Dwight D. Eisenhower would accept UNO's Secretary-Generalship. Britain floated the Eisenhower rumors in an effort to head off a fight between its own candidate, Canada's quietly competent Ambassador to the U.S., Lester B. ("Mike") Pearson, and Norway's Lie, who might again be supported by Russia. Poland set adrift a rumor for Secretary of Commerce Henry A. Wallace...
Through these shadows, and a dozen others, one reality loomed: UNO was beginning to function. When the League of Nations opened the New York Times had gazed sadly at its own nonparticipating country and paraphrased Voltaire: † "Hang yourself, Crillon, for there has been glorious fighting and you were not here...
Many doubted that immigration, with the certain prospect of clashes with the Arabs, would help Europe's fearful Jews. More thought that persuading Jews they could still live in Europe made better sense. This might be UNO's first...