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...could remember any single day in U.N. history when there had been as many private talks among the delegates. India's white-thatched Sir Senegal Rau buzzed up & down the corridors at Lake Success, in & out of at least a dozen meetings. Red China and Red Korea had answered Rau's petition for a Communist military halt at the 38th parallel by sending North Korean troops across the parallel (TIME, Dec. 18). India's undeterred envoy now proposed to ask for a ceasefire...
...Rau: Does Peking want war with the U.N. or even with...
...colleagues, Rau commented: "[The Chinese Communists] seem to be moving toward a kind of Monroe Doctrine for China . . ." In the next two days, the Assembly overwhelmingly approved the cease-fire resolution. Only Russia's Jacob Malik objected. He insisted on withdrawal of all U.N. forces from Korea. Ceasefire, he cried, was "merely a camouflage designed to make it possible for American forces to continue . . . their act of armed aggression...
...Doctrine. Meanwhile, the ceasefire commissioners-Iran's suave Nasrollah Entezam (Assembly President), Canada's hopeful Secretary of State for External Affairs Lester B. Pearson and India's indefatigable Rau-promptly began work. They spent 2½ hours with U.S. representatives. Red China's Wu refused to meet them. On Saturday, at a press conference attended by 75 newsmen, Wu gave Peking's answer: no ceasefire...
...Rau carefully observed that while he had not abandoned hope of a settlement, the word "hopeful" was still too strong to describe his feelings. Secretary General Trygve Lie, who had advocated a seat for the Chinese Communists in the U.N., also refused to surrender hope. "I cannot believe," he said, "that the hand of friendship, extended in this spirit, would be, for long, rejected by any nation or any people...