Waiting for Lefty

At Lake Success the representatives of 60 nations anxiously waited for nine unhurried Chinese Communists led by a general named Wu Hsiu-chuan. Impatient U.N. delegates mulled over reports that the Chinese would reach New York by Nov. 24, speculated curiously about where the Chinese would eat and sleep. (One popular guess: in the Russians' rented mansion at Glen Cove, L.I.)

Both Russia and the U.S. took steps to make sure that the U.N. would do nothing but mark time until the delegation from Red China arrived. U.S. Delegate John Foster Dulles persuaded the Political & Security Committee to postpone indefinitely its scheduled debate on the future status of Formosa. In the Security Council, Russia's Jacob Malik threatened to use his veto power if the Council were asked to vote on a resolution proposed a week earlier by the U.S. and five other powers. Although the resolution was intended primarily to quiet Chinese Communist suspicions of U.N. aims in Korea, Malik denounced it because it also contained a request that Mao Tse-tung withdraw his troops from Korea.

In the General Assembly, President Nasrollah Entezam of Iran made a mild attempt to take the Chinese bull by the horns. Entezam wanted to name a seven-nation committee to study the question of whether Nationalist or Communist delegates should represent China in the U.N. Under Russian pressure, Entezam decided to forget his plan temporarily. Like everything else, it would have to wait for Wu.

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