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...last week, Polish Counselor Aleksander W. Rudzinski wearily rose from his seat on U.N.'s Committee on Statelessness. He pattered obediently after his Soviet puppetmasters who were putting on yet another walkout to protest the presence of a Nationalist Chinese delegate...
Malik had seemed very angry when he was speaking, but as soon as he left the Council room he laughed and joked with newsmen. Even Malik's chauffeur plays the curious Security Council walkout game: he drove up like clockwork as Malik reached the door...
Hardly had the excitement abated and U.N.'s normal boredom been restored, when the Russians this week announced a general walkout from all U.N. agencies and committees. The strike was to continue until the Chinese Nationalists were turned out of U.N. Everybody fluttered the rule books again. Not in months had the Lake Success croquet-ground seen such a scurrying of hedgehogs, such a squirming of flamingoes...
Said General Douglas MacArthur of Derevyanko's walkout: "I can well understand the reluctance of the Soviet member to listen to so gruesome and savage a story in all its harrowing barbarity. It would well chill and sicken even a hardened old soldier...
...Italy's Communist-dominated Confederation of Labor, tried to stage a one-day general strike. Purported reason: to protest the deaths of two peasants who had tried to seize idle land and been killed in battles with police. The strike was an even more dismal flop than the walkout staged by Communists in France last fortnight (TIME, Dec. 5). The Italian strike stopped the steel and auto factories of the north; it was partly effective in the ports, and in urban transport systems. Nevertheless, millions of workers ignored the strike order. Instead of being paralyzed, Italy felt only...