CONFERENCES: Exasperation

Six unmannerly monosyllables echoed the exasperation of a peace-demanding world with the peace delayers of the Paris Conference.

Cried New Zealand's Delegate W. J. Jordan (as Soviet Delegate Andrei Vishinsky moved that France be barred from voting rights on the Rumanian and other east European treaty commissions): "Quack! Quack! Quack!" Said Senator Tom Connally (as he embarked to join Secretary of State Byrnes in Paris): "All you do is sit all day going yah, yah, yah."

New Zealander Jordan (a former policeman) sailed into the Russian delegates' interminable speeches and innumerable objections which...

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