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...down on the enemy a horrible array of germ-laden objects: pork, crackers, spiders, crows, ants, yellow leaves, crickets, flies, fleas and death-dealing goose feathers. Malik's colleagues on the U.N. Disarmament Commission could take it no longer. "My right ear," complained Britain's Sir Gladwyn Jebb, who sits at Malik's left, "has become seriously infected by the perpetual dissemination of verbal bacilli." The commission, eleven against Malik, ruled the Russian out of order...
...victory was a little diluted. Siam amended Tsiang's resolution to condemn Russia for having "failed to carry out" the treaty-Tsiang's phrase had been "violated." Besides there were 24 abstainers, including France and Britain. "Academic," ho-hummed Britain's Sir Gladwyn Jebb, and likely to "open up old wounds." Greece and Turkey were the only Europeans to vote...
...could not. On the first ballot, Greece got 30 votes, considerably short of the required two-thirds majority, to Byelorussia's 26. Seven ballots later, Byelorussia was ahead, 32 to 27, and the deadlock remained. "In these circumstances," intoned the acting Assembly President, Britain's Sir Gladwyn Jebb, "we should postpone the election in order to give us all time for reflection...
...Britain's Sir Gladwyn Jebb...
...authority back to the International Court of Justice at The Hague. The Court probably won't get around to deciding until mid-January; in the meantime, the Council wanly hoped that Britain and Iran would resume negotiations on their own. Said Britain's Sir Gladwyn Jebb: "... A most serious precedent...