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...UNO's Home Town...
About some news there can be little argument. The work of the U.S. Congress, the doings of the President, the pulling and hauling of UNO, the trial of war criminals in Japan and Germany, et al., obviously have high significance. So have the week's new discoveries and revelations in science, medicine...
...Some day UNO may become the vital center of world affairs. Statesmen may struggle to fill its posts. But last week it was in the position of the weak U.S. Supreme Court of 1800, when John Jay turned down the chief justiceship because the court lacked "energy, weight and dignity. . . ." Not only in the great, but even in the smaller countries leaders were bowing away from UNO's $20,000 a year (tax free) job as Secretary-General...
General Dwight D. Eisenhower, popular in many nations, was ruled out because the U.S. could not have both UNO's site and UNO's chief administrative post. Holland's Dr. Eelco N. van Kleffens would be opposed by the Soviets...
...Indies. Too much was at stake. Half-a-billion Asiatics, from Bombay to Bali, were watching the European masters return to their old Southeast Asia house. The house had changed. The masters had to change, too. If the Dutch blinked the fact, the matter would be brought before the UNO Assembly...