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Show I UN Gets Public Airing; I CIO at War With Reds By BAUKHAGE Nnvt Analyst and Commentator. WNU Service, 1616 Eye Street, N.W., Washington, D. C. HUNTER COLLEGE, The Bronx, N Y. Fifteen minutes ago the session ses-sion of the security council of the United Nations adjourned and the attractive room which it is hard to believe was ever the gymnasium of Hunter college in the northern latitudes lati-tudes of New York City, is almost empty. Since 11 o'clock the council members mem-bers have been at their places at the curving table on the platform and every seat in the "audience" has been filled. The first 40 persons to line up at the gates are given seats. Tickets are issued only to those with some plausible reason to hold them. Some of the "visitors" remain and the marine guards are still on duty while other attendants clear away the various impediments before each place from the Russian ambassador's at one end, to the Polish delegate's at the other. After each day's performance the actors and the audience in this play are soon far from the brown and rose room of Hunter college, but for a long time there are scores of busy men and women. They are the people whose business busi-ness it is to report this drama and the long run making repetition of an entire speech unnecessary sometimes some-times twice or sometimes throe times, as at San Francisco. But here at Hunter the business moves with a briskness that adds to the informality, in-formality, May Leave Reds On Political Limb I never realized before that New York was NOT an "early" town. When transportation is normal I can buy a New York newspaper in Washington on my way to work. On the other hand in New York at the same hour (7:30) I found there were no newsstands open between be-tween the club where I stayed on 57th street to the subway station, nor in the subway where I got on, or where I got off, 40 minutes later. Of course the crowds were pouring pour-ing southward in the subway at that hour and they had been able to buy their papers when they got on, but in the normally busy area of the 50's , the natives were not abroad in sufficient suf-ficient numbers at 7:30 to Justify the presence of news vendors. On the streets at the end of my run which is about 200th street (Kingsbridge station in the Bronx) the stands were open and most of build up opinion strong enough to discourage war. I refer to the members mem-bers of the press, radio, the news-reels, news-reels, the photographers, photog-raphers, the sound - recorders. As I sit here they are gathering up their notes and memorada, making quick contacts before delegates g e t tMitfbHnbt9r Sa! away, pulling off head-sets, pack- Baukhage the people who bumped against me, as I reached for the staid Times and the Republican Herald Tribune, Trib-une, were buying the left-wing PM. PM can't be called Communist since Editor Ingersoll is not a Communist Com-munist but while he was off to the wars it hewed pretty close to the party line. The Daily Worker, however, is considered to express the official "wishes" of the Communist Com-munist party and, according to most of the other newspapers these "wishes" come direct from the Kremlin or maybe next door. Heretofore the Communists have supported the American Labor party par-ty which is a New York party which in general embraced Democratic, New Deal. CIO supporters and had the co-operation of the Communists. Now the war is on between the CIO and the Communists and ructions are expected to arise in any corner. cor-ner. Nevertheless, when the Russian delegate walked out of the United Nations security council meeting, it j was said that until he walked back the American Labor-CIO planning board had decided to withhold support sup-port of Senator Mead, Democratic possibility in the race for the New York state governorship. This move was looked upon by conservative papers like the SUN as if the American Amer-ican Labor party were willing to plan its political strategy according to the attitude of Moscow toward the United Nations. Since in the council meeting when, the Iran af- 1 fair came up Secretary of State Byrntl led the fight against the Russian stand. The fact that he lat- er offered the resolution which labeled la-beled the Russian reply as satisfac- I tory and postponed the discussion j of Iran in which Ambassador J Gromyko had refused to take part beyond the time that the Russians themselves had demanded, the left ! wingers went to bed satisfied. However critics of the American Labor party and the CIO still insist ; that they are now on record as hav- ! lng tried to line up American votes I to please a foreign power. What ! the repercussions of this little flurry flur-ry will be remain to be seen. If this ; is supposed to be an evidence of left-wing displeasure over the Dem- ! ocratic admuiistration's foreign policy pol-icy and subsequent events have not removed that displeasure, the ques-Uon ques-Uon remains, where will the left wingers go? John Lewis, whose love for the Democrats evaporated when he rOlllrin't Pnllppt on hie trnarne lng up cameras and tripods and then perhaps pausing for refreshments refresh-ments in the "press lounge" especially espe-cially installed in the basement of the gymnasium where their quarter! quar-ter! are located. UN Recognizes Popular Interest I have covered many international interna-tional gatherings from the peace conference con-ference of Paris after World War I and none has given as much proportional pro-portional attention to providing the necessary facilities for bringing the proceedings to the citizens of the world as this gathering at Hunter college. Of course the council is relatively small and the army of reporters seems large in comparison to its scant 11 members, the secretary and assistant secretary general and the various advisors. The fact that the principals are so few increases the informality and the feeling of intimacy which seems to exist between be-tween the organization and the group of men and women who observe, ob-serve, record and report its doings. Along the wall, opposite the council coun-cil table at gallery level are a row of glass windows, the booths of the American radio networks, the BBC, and some separate stations. In a glassed-in-corner behind and to the left of the table are radio engineers and the equipment which records all the spoken words of the members. mem-bers. At any moment a speaker may be cut in and heard by listeners lis-teners on any of the networks. At special points of vantage there are places for taking movie and still photographs. Whenever some dramatic dra-matic moment arrives you can see the Klieg lights slowly rise (and the busiest delegate Is likely to straighten straight-en his tie, take off or put on his glasses) while the moving picture couldn t collect on his generous donation do-nation to the Roosevelt campaign fund, is expected to become a hundred hun-dred per cent Republican when it comes to the next presidential elec- 1 Uon. It would take a great stretch of ! the imagination, however, to visualize visu-alize either the communist appendage append-age of CIO, of the non-Communist CIO-PAC head, Sydney Hillman, ! embracing the elephant. It has al-ready al-ready been demonstrated that the i Communists are becoming anything ' but an asset to the Democratic par- i ty and Hillman probably would be glad to get rid of them. Where the Communists will go is a question. It is not likely that they and such fellow travelers as are willing to travel with them would essay a third party. But politicians hereabout believe that they will be able to shift their weight about in such a manner as to upset more than one state and congressional political apple-cart. 1 camera? grind. Most of the speaking by the delegates, dele-gates, except when formal statements state-ments are read, is done from notes or completely ad lib and since all of the members speak either English or French the pauses for interpreting are short either into French or English, except when Ambassador Am-bassador Gromyko speaks in Russian. Rus-sian. These words must be interpreted inter-preted into both French and English Eng-lish and Gromyko doesn't hesitate to stop the interpreter and give his own English translation if he doesn't like the interpreter's choice of words. He could speak in English Eng-lish himself if he wanted to but probably wants the Russian for the record for home consumption. Eventually when the permanent meeting place is established the system sys-tem employed at Nuernberg will be used earphones and simultaneous translation. This slows down the speakers but is much more rapid in |