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Show . ONCE OVER 1 Lei Dan Cupid Replace Malik By H. I. PHILLIPS ' 1 THE UNITED NATIONS is muffing muff-ing a big chance. It failed to put love on the agenda, with the Cretan Cre-tan disturbance over the elopement elope-ment of 28-year-old Tassoula Patrak-ageorgi Patrak-ageorgi crying out for action. Tassoula, Tass-oula, daughter of a Liberal deputy, was whisked off to the mountains in knightly fashion by dashing Con-stantine Con-stantine Kephaloyannis, a member of the Conservatives. Something close to war followed. Disturbances are still going on. This column urges that the case be taken up by the security council at once so that for the first time love and romance may figure in its proceedings. So far they have never been mentioned. mention-ed. Think how It would cheer the heartsick world, fed up with grim debates at Lake Success, to discuss dis-cuss via radio and video a crisis of the Romeo and Juliet type! With the agenda listing it as "Complaint of aggression in the Cretan moonlight"! moon-light"! U.N. needs an asmosphere of orange blossoms, a mood of rice-throwing rice-throwing and distant strains of "Here Comes the Bride" and "This Can't Be Love, Because It Feels So Good." It could even hold moonlight moon-light sessions and use a balcony scene. The elopement and marriage of Tassoula and Constantine brought out the army. It caused disturbances disturb-ances all over Crete. Tassoula's father declared the romance an act of aggression. The bridegroom's supporters are for a fight to restore love and kisses to their proper place In a war-torn globe. We want the Security Council to seat both sides. How will Russia stand? Probably against love and romance as the crude pastimes of the ruling classes. Wall street and Warren Austin. Mr. Malik might charge Foster Dulles with starting the whole business. (If we were Tassie, the happy bride, we would demand that Malik be kept out so her case could be ruled on while she was still young.) Consider what a relief It would be to hear simultaneous and consecutive con-secutive interpretations of such immortal im-mortal pleas as "Come live with me and be my love" and "But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east and Juliet is the sun!" instead of "As is well known, the despicable vassals of these bloodthirsty warmongers, etc." We repeat, this is U. N.'s grand chance. The world is sick of conflicts con-flicts based on hatreds, jealousies, frontiers and parallels. Let's hear something like "Marry me now, my sweet, and tell your folks later" translated into three languages. Make Irving Berlin or Cole Porter chairman for the month. Now is the time for United Nations to drive Tassoula Patrakageorgi back behind be-hind the 38th parallel of parental frigidity and Insist that "fair Verona" Ve-rona" be kept under the rule of Will Shakespeare! Belated story from the Malik dinner din-ner to his colleagues; one of the Russian delegates seemed unnecessarily unneces-sarily noisy drinking his soup and somebody asked, "I hope we don't get simultaneous and consecutive translations." |
