Evening star., 1950-10-22


and Pakistan are quarreling. The
U. N. managed to stop the fight
ing there, but a settlement ap.
pears far off.
The U. N. has not settled the
future of Jerusalem, a city sacred
to Christians. Jews and Moslems.
Israel holds part of the city,
Jordan holds the other part and
neither Is willing to carry out an
internationalization plan written
by the fourth General Assembly
in 1948. That question Is before
the present assembly.
Past Reviewed
Even Secretary General Trygve
Lie admits major failures on the
part of the U. N. In a speech in
Chicago on September 8, Lie said
the three big failures were Cd
failure to establish an effective
world police force. co to control
atomic energy and (3) to reduce
armaments as promised.
F1ashbacks over the five years
show a steady procession of dra-
matte moments.
One came March 27. 1916. when
Soviet Delegate Andrei A. Gro
myko, now the first deputy foreign
minister Of the Soviet Union,
angrily got up from the Security
Council table and walked out when
the Council decided to hear Trans
charges against Russia. His going
gave a tense audience a premoni-
tion OF more disagreements with
the U. S. S. r.
Plain talk came at the Paris
assembly in 1948. Paul-Henri
Spaak, the first president of the
U. N. Assembly and later Premier
and Foreign Minister of Belgium.
looked directly at Soviet Delegate
Andrei Y. Vishinsky and told him
that the Communist fifth column
growing in the world made Adolf
Hitlers fifth column look like a
troop of Boy Scouts.
Vishinsky stands out as one Of
the star performers in the U. N.
show. He can shout in red anger
or he can talk most charmingly
as the policy dictates-and at this
session he has every one puzzled
ny taking moderate tone on the
whole.
Vishinsky has his lighter side.
He is good hand at the cello and
loves opera. He Visited the Met
ropolitan in New York City during
the 1949 Assembly and sat through
an opera, humming as the music
moved along.
One of the first delegates was
Bernard M. Baruch, elder states
man who is remembered in the
o. N. for the weary hours he and
his delegation spent trying to
achieve international control of
atomic energy. Baruch laid down
an atomic control plan which
eventually was written into the
majority proposals in the U. N.
This was approved by the Atomic
Energy Commission-with Russia
standing aside-in December. 1e46.
Happy over this accomplishment.
Baruch grinned and took a side
seat in the commission room and
ate crackers and drank milk.
Warren R. Austin, permanent
United States delegate to the U. N.
came 10 Lake Success from the
United States Senate. He likes to
talk about his international apple
tree in Vermont, with shoots
shipped in from Australia, and he
has learned the trick of mixing
good Vermont humor into diplo-
matte speeches in the Security
Council, to the delight of a vast
audience of television fans.
Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister
Jacob A. Malik, Gromyko's sue
cessor in the Council, is a big, ex-
pansive Russian who likes to crack
a joke off duty, but who is strict
Stain man on the job.
Jebb Has Following
Secretary General Lie is bluff
Norwegian who speaks his mind
to the U. N. when he thinks the
time has come to do so. When he
lntervened in the Iranian case.
some delegates indicated they felt
Lie should shut up, but his aides
asked: What was he being paid
$40. 900 a year for-to keep quiet?
Lie gets $4,000 salary and $40, 900
expense money each year and has
a mansion in Forest Hills, Queens,
a section of New York City. He
used to play tennis at a nearby
club but his heavy duties cut down
on that exercise.
Britain started Sir Alexander
Cadogan. a veteran of the Dunn
barton Oaks talks. as her delegate
and kept him on the job here un-
til he retired last June. He was
succeeded by Sir Gladwyn Jebb.
who has gained a wide following
with his habit of answering long
Soviet arguments with a few WELL
turned phrases.
One man, over the years, has
become known as "Mr. U. N" He
is Brig. Gen. Carlos P. Romulo.
Foreign Minister of the Philippines
and president of the 1949 Assem-
bly,. He kept up a constant round
OF business, official receptions and
other actions as president, climax
ing the whole affair with five
speeches on the last day of the
fourth Assembly, and dinner with
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt.
One Of the big drawing cards
is Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, who
has been United States delegate
to every General Assembly so far
and who is widely known for her
advocacy of international human
rights.
Another drawing card is DR..
Ralph Bunche, grandson of an
slave, who won the 1850
Nobel ppQna pri1a for h;e ,-,orl> d.