National Affairs: Attack & Rebuttal

Spokesmen for the world's two great powers presented their briefs last week on the Greek-Turkish loan. Spokesman for Russia was U.N. Representative Andrei Gromyko, speaking at Lake Success; for the U.S., Arthur Vandenberg on the floor of the U.S. Senate. Excerpts:

Gromyko: The United States Government has ignored the United Nations and disregarded the authority of this organization.

Vandenberg: Far from bypassing the United Nations, this amended bill is the greatest act of voluntary allegiance to it in the whole story of the United Nations.

Gromyko: The United States did not approach the United Nations...

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