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...this week will come six representatives of the United Nations Organization to select the site of UNO's permanent home...
After London's meeting of the UNO Preparatory Commission decided to place UNO's capital in the U.S., the fight narrowed down to San Francisco v. the East. Said Antonio Parra Velasco of Ecuador: "San Francisco is a city of wine, and where there is wine there is civilization, culture and the spirit of enthusiasm which we need." The British preferred to argue this point on its merits. Professor C. K. Webster, the United Kingdom's alternate delegate, said he had found the wines of the Hudson Valley equal to those of California...
Togas & Trios. If the other logs were smaller, they were still of awkward sizes. Iran (see FOREIGN NEWS) posed a question the League never solved: what action will UNO take if a small power accuses a great power of aggression? Korea, still split between U.S. and Russian occupation zones, symbolized a whole set of answers needed on dependent areas and trusteeship. The Moscow press showed that Molotov was mincing no words on the Far East-Pravda challenged the presence of U.S. troops in China, and Izvestia complained that the U.S. tolerated "Japanese militarists in the toga of democrats...
Last week in London the trusteeship committee of the United Nations Preparatory Commission was discussing a proposal which would permit African natives to elect spokesmen to appear before UNO. Up jumped South Africa's hardbitten, outspoken George Heaton Nicholls. Cried he: "To invite natives to get up on platforms and express their wishes would result in chaos in Africa...
Last week, as some republics still shied at the idea, U.S. officials talked about bringing up the topic of Argentina in the world assembly by invoking Article II of the United Nations Charter (which permits the UNO Assembly to discuss any problem relating to the maintenance of peace). The threat of such a global airing of regional matters might do much to induce sensitive Latin republics to handle their scandals inside the family...