Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-18
What Happened

Last weeks raplQ-ure actlon
started In the Security Council on
Tuesday afternoon, when National
ist China. as promised. vetoed the
membership application of Com
munist- sponsored Outer Mongolia.
Quickly the Soviet Union replied.
also as promised, with a thunder
ing salvo Of is vetoes against Is
free-world nominees and two late
starters proposed at the last minute
by Nationalist China South Korea
and South Wet Nam.
Grfm-faced delegates Of the II
nation Security Council fled out
of the conference room pondering
the wreckage. Shot down in flames
was months and years Of prepare
ton for this day. While it was
Soviet Delegate Arkady Sobolev
who had set the new indoor record
Of IS vetoes at single sitting
drumming the Moscow 10-year string
to an even 75), most Of the blame
devolved on Nationalist China.
Although Taipeh's part had
merely been to cast the first stone
against the relatively obscure state
Of Outer Mongolia, the Nationahsts'
persistence In the face Of solemn
Soviet threats to retaliate with a
mass disbarment had curiously d.
verted most Of the criticism to
Generalissimo Chang Kai-shek.
Perhaps, however. there was un-
seen diplomatic pressure on the
Kremlin as well. Perhaps, too, the
Soviet Union had plan. What
ever the reason, Mr.. Sobolev called
for q special session of the Security
Council less than "a hours after
he had cast his record Is yetoes.
A Poekoge Deal
He offered compromise pack
age deal to admit 16 Of the 10
whose applications had been re-
jected the day before. He agreed
to withdraw Outer Mongolia and
proposed to balance" this by
striking Japan of the list as well.
The United States sought to re-
store Japan but Mr.. Sobolev fired
another veto to block this move.
The other 10 were approved, first
Individually and then in q package.
Wednesday night the General As
sembly confirmed the admission
Of Is.
To show the japanese people
and the world clearly where the
blame lay for its failure to gain
admittance, Ambassador Lodge pro-
posed Nippon's admittance once
more on Thursday, drawing the
third Soviet veto of Japan in as
many days.
The attitude toward Nationalist
China's first veto, meanwhile. had
undergone a profound transforms
ton. The Soviet attempt to bring
Outer Mongolia into the United
Nations by blackmail methods had
been thwarted, 1t now appeared,
by the pluck Of a shaky island re-
public Of 8 million population,
against the pleas Of its long time
friend In court, the United States.
Latin American nations, which had
been making dire threats to throw
their 20 votes behind a move to
GUST the Formosa government, for
got these dark thoughts in their
siubilation over the admittance OF
Italy, Portugal and Spain. Arabs
and Asians who recognize Red
China instead Of Chiang's China
temporarily forgot their pique at
Taipeh to exult in the admittance
Of six key voters to their third
force bloc.
Only Japan was glum. The
Tokyo government and the nation
ally-circulated press set about
quickly laying the blame for their
failure to gain admittance at Mos
cows door. But the recently united
Socialist opposition tried to turn
the peoples wrath against the for
eign ONCE and against Ma
tionalist China.
internationally. 1t appeared, ia
pan had suddenly been thrust into
the limelight for the first time since
that quiet Sunday in September
10 years ago. when the present for
eign minister. Mamoru Shigemitsu