UNITED NATIONS: Story of a Cause

The Berlin crisis was by far the gravest issue yet referred to U.N.'s uncertain authority. It represented a crisis for U.N. itself: it was the first time that one of the Big Two (on whose supposed unity U.N. was based) had directly accused the other of threatening the peace. Yet, for free men, there was inspiration in U.N.'s General Assembly. In Paris unfolded the story of people with a cause, who had found words of force and dignity to tell it.

"There Is No Plot." George Marshall's was the first major speech of...

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