Show general Gen eraB assembly gets under way U no delegates convene at town hall all of the world by BAUKHAGE news analyst and commentator washington at the opening of the current session of the united nations general assembly I 1 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 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 him 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 0 c course 0 urse his gray haired colleague was right and you still believe the younger man asked earnestly that some day they 11 work certainly was the reply and it was made with such simple sincer ity that we youngsters felt a little reproved the next day I 1 walked to a rail way station across the beautiful lul flushing mead aws in the twi light the scent ol 01 new mown grass all about us with 4 one of those prod idies an instant translator she was one of the female of the cies cles who are quite as efficient as the males but it was not her feminine charm which attracted me if such were Baub Dauk baukhage hage to be discovered I 1 tried to ask her a little about her work my first question being isn t it interesting 7 interesting oh for a while she answered but one would like to get around a little more I 1 have been here since spring I 1 d like to get back to the orient and other places I 1 mentioned that we had had simultaneous translation at oh I 1 was there she said and always cold one could never get warm any where I 1 agreed and she added I 1 went there direct from india i I 1 tried to gel get some observation from her on the idea behind beh nd these conferences and their effort to bring about world understanding and world peace do you think that they are worthwhile I 1 asked we re always asking that hope fully if a little wistfully oh yes she replied quickly they are much better than none at all much but I 1 feel that the men here do not really wish to make sacrifices to have peace the men in their own governments do not wish them to make enough conces to rob the officials in the dit dif ferent governments of their own owa power and so the beautiful words they use are only rationalization they express idealistic thoughts but when it comes to acting to ment them they do not wish to go that far they already have satis fied fled that feeling they know they should have to do the right thing then they do not have to do if it just as all of us rationalize our own mis conduct that gave me a pause it also gave roe me some hope for this session for I 1 believe that the powers of the assembly will be strengthened so that they can enforce what the people want the fine words and idealistic plans will have more force it the permanent committee at of the assembly on peace and security winch which secretary of state mar shall proposed Is created it will be in session all the time its voice by the over use I 1 0 of f the stultifying veto will be heard continuously not merely when the assembly itself is in session word words contain great significance words 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 d scission of the word un on the second day of the as meeting this was just the english meaning discussed among english speaking reporters secre tary marshall had said this new per manent committee of the assembly would nit impinge on the security council the great argument about the committee has been that it was intended to by pass the security council itself and thus duck the veto if the english speaking report 0 ers I 1 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 halt half a dozen other languages it was the translation of one word which aich nearly caused a revolution to in korea and made the work of the american commission there inal n tely more difficult it also has at af fectea the whole course of action by the assembly on korea it was the v word trusteeship there is no word which properly y translates democracy in russian when using the term the russians merely give the english word its russian form but what a gulf be tween their meaning and ours lib erty ot 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 mod ern russian generation and yet they constantly describe their country and their satellites as democracies there was a good deal of elec tio pioneering before and during the close battle over the election for the presidency of the assembly at first the american delegation had intend ed to vote tor for oswaldo aranha of brazil he is an old and staunch friend of the united states but he 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 dian t want the job so our delegates pledged tor for evatt of australia who was exceed angly 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 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 floor the russian stooges had to be told lust just how to vote 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 ivi a member of the staff of advisors to to the russian delegation that name d t mean much to me but I 1 was reminded by paul ward of the bal junore sun who always has a sharp eye out tor 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 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 elea nor roosevelt they are both active A na IV tm A K IV ar le 1 4 MRS AIRS 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 new government I 1 couldn coulden t help thinking consider ing the recent emancipation of worn en in india that mrs pandit was more I 1 ke mrs roosevelt than mrs roosevelt herself when you con sider the unconventional ty of both judged by the standards of their respective older generations |