Half & Half

Three years ago, the U.N. charter was signed at San Francisco. During ceremonies commemorating that all but forgotten anniversary, U.S. wartime Censor Byron Price said last week: "The United Nations has not become what it was intended to be. [It] cannot endure half success and half failure."

The U.N., still enduring, had a busy week:

P: With only eleven days left till the uneasy four-week Arab-Jewish truce expires, Mediator Count Folke Bernadotte sent to both sides his recommendations for peace talks to achieve a permanent settlement in Palestine. The recommendations, carried by plane to Cairo and Tel Aviv, were still wrapped in official secrecy.

P: Andrei A. Gromyko cast Russia's 26th veto--against the U.S. plan to control atomic energy.

P: The preparatory commission for the International Refugee Organization reported that, three years after war's end, between eight and twelve million people (including an estimated six million Jews anonymously killed by the Nazis) are still missing and unaccounted for in Europe. The commission made no exact estimate of those missing in Russia, since the Russians are not supplying information to I.R.O.

P: The Trusteeship Council faced a complaint from St. Joan's Social and Political Alliance, London (a Catholic lay organization dedicated to women's rights) concerning the Fon (king) of Bikom, in the British Cameroons. Missionaries had reported the Fon to have 600 wives. Britain icily retorted that he had only 110. Said Iraqi Delegate Awni Khalidy: "It seems to me the proper way would be to leave this man to discover the futility of his actions for himself ... in God's good time." On a Russian suggestion, the matter was passed on to the Commission on Human Rights.

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