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...Capitol Hill a cardinal point was made in implementing U.S. participation in UNO. The Senate voted (65-10-7) to give the President's delegate to the Security Council authority to vote the use of U.S. troops-without recourse to Congress-if UNO needs them to enforce the peace. To this the nationalistic New York Daily News, always suspicious of international cooperation, screamed: "The passing of the Republic...
...shooting was about back home. Last week Civilian Stassen stood up before the Manhattan convention of the National Association of Manufacturers-and unfolded a plan marked by the patriotic optimism that veterans know well. What he suggested was, in effect, a U.S. conference-on the lines of the UNO conference at San Francisco-of the U.S. people, and a Ten-Year Plan. Said...
...UNO was at a critical point. "If the Russians are not brought into the atomic commission, we might as well kiss UNO goodbye," was another Washington view...
Iran stood on its dignity as a full-fledged member of UNO. But its intrinsic weakness was that of many small states, sovereign in name only, which became pawns of the great powers. It happened that Iran had a ruler whose amiable, feckless personality symbolized perfectly the political vacuum his once-great country had become...
...star performer was Paul Bellamy, a bull-necked businessman who represented no city, but the bleak Black Hills of South Dakota, where men are men and steaks are three inches thick. When he described the latter, Yugoslavia's gaunt, grey Stoyan Gavrilovic, the UNO subcommittee chairman, was visibly affected...