UNITED NATIONS: The Four-Year-Olds

Forty children, each four years old, last week assembled in the delegates' dining room at Lake Success to celebrate U.N.'s fourth anniversary. They were children of U.N. staffers and diplomats; under the watchful eyes of Mrs. Carlos Romulo, Mrs. Warren Austin and other U.N. wives, they cavorted in native costumes, ate ice cream & cake, and, in the words of the New York Herald Tribune, "declined to comment on international affairs."

At another U.N. birthday party last week, a group of less restrained celebrators commented at length, but scarcely said any more. Just four...

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