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Show General Assembly Gets Under Way U. N. Delegates Convene At Town Hall of the World By BAUKHAGE News Analyst and Commentator. WASHINGTON. At the opening of the current session of the United Nations general assembly I made the usual rounds greeting friends from far corners of the earth whom these meetings bring together. Two converged upon me and one of them began to discourse on the fact that we three were becoming be-coming conference veterans. He started to say ". . . . let's see how many Is It, there was the first Quebec, then the second Quebec But the other man interrupted htm and remarked gently: "Oh, no, it goes further back than that This is my forty fourth Remember there was a League of Nations too?" The younger man stopped. Of course, his gray haired colleague was right. "And you still believe," the younger man asked earnestly, "that some day they'll work?" "Certainly," was the reply. And it was made with such simple sincerity sincer-ity that we "youngsters" felt a little reproved. The next day 1 walked to a railway rail-way station across the beautiful ITlliaMna Mauri There is no word which properly translates "democracy" in Russian. When using the term the Russians merely give the English word its Russian form. But what a gulf between be-tween their meaning and ours. Liberty Lib-erty of the individual is not implied at all in the Russian concept. Indeed, many people have said there is no real desire for liberty on the part of the modern mod-ern Russian generation. And yet they constantly describe their country and their satellites as "democracies." There was a good deal of electioneering elec-tioneering before and during the close battle over the election for the presidency of the assembly. At first the A iimric. , l..lAni: i . ows in the twilight, twi-light, the scent of new-mown grass all about us, with one of those prodigies, prod-igies, an "instant translator." She was one of the female fe-male of the species spe-cies who are quite as efficient as the males. But it was not her feminine charm which attracted .w ... utrn.-Kci uuii nan intend ed to vote for Oswaldo Aranha o: Brazil. He is an old and stauncr friend of the United States. But h felt that Brazil had had enough honors at the recent conference in Rio, that he had served one term before and that it would be best not to run. He said he didn't want the Job. So our delegates pledged for Evatt of Australia, who was exceedingly exceed-ingly anxious to be elected. But the Latin-Americans would have none of it. They demanded Aranha run. The contest narrowed to him and Evatt. This put Russia on the spot. Latin-America Latin-America wants to liberalize the veto, Evatt would tear it to pieces And the veto is the Russian pet. But the United States was for Evatt so Russia voted for Aranha and he won the Russian delegation went Into a huddle on the lloor. The Russian stooges had to be told just how to v,ote. And who should be the man who ran around, taking orders or shall we say suggestions from the Russian delegation to the various groups, Albania, Poland and the others under the Russian thumb? It was Sarge M. Koudttavtsev, a member of the staff of advisors' to me, if such were Baukhaee to be discovered. I tried to ask her a little about her work, my first question being: "Isn't it interesting?" "Interesting? Oh, for a while," she answered, "but one would like to get around a little more. I have been here since spring. I'd like to get back to the Orient and other places." I mentioned that we had had simultaneous translation at Nuernberg. "Oh, I was there," he said, "and always cold. One could never get warm, any where." I agreed. "And." she added, "I went there direct from India." I tried to get some observation from her on the idea behind these conferences and their effort to bring about world understanding and world peace. "Do you think ,that they are worthwhile?" I asked. (We're always asking that, hopefully hope-fully if a little wistfully.) "Oh, yes," she replied quickly, "they are much better than none at all, much. But I feel that thf mm .moon.., ucicgduoa. mat name didn't mean much to me.,but I was reminded by Paul Ward of the Baltimore Bal-timore Sun, who always has a sharp eye out for such matters, that this active gentleman was the man named as the "architect" of the Russian spy system, In the report on the plot to obtain official secrets from the Canadian government. Two women are exceedingly popular popu-lar at the assembly meetings and their popularity seems to grow. One is Mrs. Pandit Nehru, wife of the Indian leader, and one is Mrs. Eleanor Elea-nor Roosevelt. They are both active here do not really wish to make sacrifices to have peace. The men in their own governments do not wish them to make enough concessions conces-sions to rob the officials in the dif ferent governments of their own power. And so the beautiful words they use are only rationalization. They express idealistic thoughts, but when it comes to acting to implement imple-ment them, they do not wish to go that far. They already have satisfied satis-fied that feeling they know they should have, to do the right thing. Then they do not have to do it. Just as all of us rationalize our own misconduct." mis-conduct." That gave me a pause. It also gave me some hope for this session for I believe that the I powers of the assembly will be strengthened so that they can enforce what the people want. The line words and idealistic plans will have more force if the permanent committee of the assembly on peace and security, which Secretary of State Marshall Mar-shall proposed, Is created. It will he in session all the time. Its voice, unmufllcd by the overuse over-use of the stultifying veto, will be heard continuously; not merely w hen the assembly Itself is in session. Words Contain S - MRS. PANDIT NEHRU and intelligent. Mrs. Pandit (last names come first in India, as in many other countries) has been ! named ambassador to Russia by her I new government. I couldn't help thinking, consider-ing consider-ing the recent emancipation of worn- en in India that Mrs. Pandit was more like Mrs. Roosevelt, than Mrs. Roosevelt herself, when you consider con-sider the unconventionality of both judged by the standards of their respective older generations. vjrenr oigmncance Wurds still are making trouble, as they always have. It isn't what we say so much as what people think we mean. For instance, there was a long discussion of the word "impinge," "im-pinge," on the second day of the assembly as-sembly meeting. This was just the English meaning, discussed among English-speaking reporters. Secretary Secre-tary Marshall had said this new permanent per-manent committee of the assembly would not "impinge" on the security council. The great argument about the committee has been that it was intended to by pass the security council itsell. and thus duck the veto. If the English-speaking reporters report-ers weren't quite sure how far you go, or don't go, when you "impinge," it's no wonder there was confusion when it was translated into half a dozen other languages. i It was the translation of one word which nearly caused a revolution In i Korea and made the work of the American commission there infl- nitely more difficult. It also has af- i fected the whole course of action by the assembly on Korea. It was the I word "trusteeship." ( I |