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Secretary General Trygve Lie made a new effort last week to end Russia's walkout and the U.N. stalemate. Lie proposed a ten-point, 20-year "program for achieving peace through the United Nations...
Like an overdose of champagne (or hemlock), it hits the underpinning of the economy first. Laboring men begin the Great Walkout - miners, fruit pickers, dock-wallopers, bus boys; by the thousands they quit their jobs, pocket their pills, and lam out for Florida. Short crops and short fuel send other thousands after them. The greatest holiday in history...
Officials of the local Liggett's stores would not comment on the walkout, and referred all inquires to their national headquarters...
...Drop the policy of "walkout and boycott" of the United Nations, and show some respect for the will of the majority. "Let the Soviet Union put forward . . . genuine proposals conducive to the work of peace . . . They will then doubtless have a majority with them [and] we will be pleased to be a member of it ourselves...
...story-the peace offensive to throw the Western world off its guard, cynical promises made to be broken, the indignant walkout when the negotiations got down to specifics. Or was it? Without any confidence at all that the U.S.S.R. could be trusted on anything, the free world, full of foreboding over the dreadful prospect of atomic war, waited to hear more. But it would have to hear a lot more before it paid any hopeful attention...