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...comforting about hearing the world's great men blowing their noses over national radio hookups. UNO's microphones picked up all sorts of odd dialogue. At one point a female whispered urgently: "When you are ready, bang and get them out." Just as urgently, Council Chairman Dr. Quo Tai-chi of China replied: "I haven't got anything to bang with. They have deprived me of the instrument with which to function." All these were little things, but they made UNO something as believable to U.S. newspaper readers as the U.S. Congress or a C.I.O. convention. Perhaps...
Northern Lights. Byrnes proposed that UNO ask both Russia and Iran to report officially on the status of their negotiations, wanted answers by April 2. Other delegates suggested April 4 because "magnetic storms" were delaying communications. Chairman Quo Tai-chi compromised on April 3. While UNO waited for the Russian and Iranian reports, Pravda called the whole crisis "artificial," and pronounced further discussion of the case "superfluous" in the light of "the mutual understanding reached regarding evacuation of Soviet forces from Iran...
...Damascus. Editor White remained the Republican Party's spiritual son until he met Theodore Roosevelt-when he also discovered the New Testament. "I have no recollection that I ever traveled on the road to Damascus. But Theodore Roosevelt and his attitude toward the powers that be, the status quo, the economic, social and political order, certainly did begin to penetrate my heart. And when I came to the New Testament and saw Jesus, not as a figure in theology . . . but as a statesman and philosopher who dramatized His creed by giving His life for it, then gradually the underpinning...
...Firm Stand. "If we are to be a great power," he said, "we must act as a great power. . . . Our diplomacy must not be negative and inert." The U.S. must stand firm on its own principles-and against any "unilateral gnawing away at the status quo"; any aggression "accomplished by coercion or pressure"; any maneuvering "for further and undisclosed penetrations of power"; any imposition of troops "upon small and impoverished states"; against any "war of nerves to achieve strategic ends...
...chance to implement his brave new words lay embarrassingly close at hand. This week Iran asked the U.S. to protest Russia's action there. Russia's refusal to quit Azerbaijan (see FOREIGN NEWS) could well be interpreted as: 1) the "unilateral gnawing away of the status quo"; 2) aggression by "coercion or pressure"; 3) an entering wedge "for further and undisclosed penetration of power"; or even 4) "a war of nerves to achieve strategic ends...