U.N.: It Was Nice . . .

The Security Council was trying hard, but it was getting nowhere at all on the two ticklish cases before it—Iran and Spain. Both cases turned on the extent to which the Council could act on the "internal affairs" of nations. The Russians thought the Council could go as far as it liked on Spain; the U.S. and Britain thought not. The Western powers thought the Council ought to know what was going on in Iran; Moscow couldn't see why.

Iran. Last week the Council received a report from Teheran that the Red Army had withdrawn from Azerbaijan. Iran's Ambassador Hussein...

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