International: Obstetrical Spank

Spanking is one way of forcing a baby to breathe and live. Last week Baby UNO got a sharp whack across its little red fundament. The slap was a demand that it investigate the "interference of the Soviet Union, through the medium of their officials and armed forces, in the internal affairs of Iran."

Next Iran's elderly Premier, Ebrahim Hakimi, pointed up the growing crisis by resigning. He had pleaded in vain with the Russians to take the Red Army out of the northern parts of his country, withdraw their support from the rebel government that had sprung up in Russian-occupied Azerbaijan.

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