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This site, the Hyde Park home of the man who had done much to make UNO possible, seamed the probable first choice. In London last week the UNO Interim Committee had narrowed down the possible sites to about 15, all within a radius of 85 miles of New York City or within 60 miles of Boston. Among them were Princeton, N.J., and such historic Massachusetts towns as Concord, Marblehead, Quincy, Dedham. Whatever the site, Congress will have to agree to surrender sovereignty over...
...world had learned that Big Three communiqués never solve as much as they seem to, so optimism over the results was tinged with considerable caution. But by any reckoning, the meeting had at least got big-power collaboration started again. Now UNO could come on from the wings without having the curtain suddenly rung down on it. The peace-making could go forward...
Byrnes stuck to the terms of the Truman-Attlee-King statement on atomic energy (TIME, Nov. 26). Following its terms closely, the Foreign Ministers proposed an atomic energy commission under the UNO Security Council, to make suggestions in four stages: 1) free exchange of basic scientific information; 2) controls to see that atomic energy is used only for peaceful purposes; 3) elimination of atomic and other mass-destruction weapons; 4) effective international inspection of atomic activities. Each stage must be successfully completed before the next is undertaken...
...chill, dusty St. James's Palace, workmen labored last week cleaning windows and installing a special hot-water system. Here, on Jan. 9, King George VI, whose own state dining room in Buckingham Palace was still not redded up for peace, would entertain the chief delegates to UNO at a banquet...
Russian diplomats have a short way with sentimentality. Last week the first issue of the United Nations News, an eight-page, letter-size monthly established by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, reported this conversation in London between UNO's chief Russian Delegate Andrei A. Gromyko and chief U.S. Delegate Edward R. Stettinius...