National Affairs: A Million Nays

The Gallup poll reports that 79% of the men and women interviewed in a nationwide survey were opposed to letting Red China into the U.N. Only 8% are in favor and the rest have "no opinion." In 1950, on the eve of the Korean war, only 58% were opposed and 11% in favor.

The intensity of U.S. opposition to seating Red China is indicated in another statistic. The "Committee for One Million Against the Admission of Communist China to the United Nations," which came into existence less than a year ago (TIME, Oct. 19), has now passed its goal of getting 1,000,000...

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