UNITED NATIONS: Threat

Behind the wordy panoply of the United Nations General Assembly, the two big Western allies last week privately—and temporarily—patched up a fissure in their alliance. Britain agreed to swing over to the U.S. position for the "current year" and oppose all talk of Red China's admission to the U.N. It also switched to the U.S. side in the delicate U.N. struggle over Communist efforts to squeeze India and other neutralist-minded nations into the Korean peace conference.

Loosely united again on the most ticklish problem now facing the U.N., the West stepped into...

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