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...declined to join the mob. In London 500 soldiers met in Grosvenor Square. When a sergeant bellowed: "Do you know who we got on this side [of the Atlantic]?" they roared back: "Eleanor!" A delegation marched to Claridge's Hotel, where Eleanor Roosevelt had arrived for the UNO conference, and demanded that she help them. They said she promised...
Seven tired diplomats, headed by Yugoslavia's Dr. Stojan Gavrilovic, stepped out of a plane at LaGuardia Field to begin 1946's most publicized house hunt. Soon they ran into a devastating propaganda barrage by cities which want to become the home of UNO-and refuse to be intimidated by the strong sentimental lobby for Hyde Park...
Fighting Mood. All the Scotch in the world would not wash away the probability that UNO was heading into a rough maiden voyage. The original intention was to confine the first meeting to first matters like establishing the Security Council and electing a Secretary-General. But the world was too full of controversy to keep the agenda antiseptic...
Cool Hope. Britain was out to prove her point at this first UNO meeting by broadening the discussion. A struggle over which areas of the world are to go under the new trusteeships seemed certain. Into the Assembly's arena, too, would probably go the problem of Palestine and the whole question of European refugees...
Died. Grayson Neikirk Kefauver, 45, progressive, internationally minded dean (on leave) of Stanford University's School of Education, State Department consultant on re-educating Germany, prime mover in establishing UNO's educational, scientific and cultural branch; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Los Angeles...