Three miles southwest of where the U.N. was celebrating its seventh birthday in splendid new Manhattan quarters, the U.N. was, in effect, put on trial in the U.S. Court House in Foley Square. For the past two weeks, one by one, twelve among the 2,000 Americans employed by the U.N. itself (i.e., not in the U.S. delegation to U.N.) had refused under oath to tell a Senate judiciary subcommittee whether they were or had ever been Communists. All twelve claimed the protection of the self-incrimination clause in the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution; one even refused to answer when asked...
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