The Real Trouble

Said Gromyko: "This is one thing you cannot blame on the Soviet Union." He meant the snow. More effectively than the veto, the Great Snow paralyzed U.N.

U.N. commuters fought vainly against the white wasteland of Lake Success. Others gave up; one French delegate (ignoring all traffic signals because of U.N. immunity) spent his time skiing down Manhattan's Park Avenue. Even the U.N. bar was almost deserted. One afternoon, a silent figure joined a handful of hardy newsmen. Over his whiskey, he growled: "Thash the trouble with thish place. Not an Irishman around." Anonymously, he disappeared.

But the week was not entirely eventless:

P: U.N.'s veto-free "Little Assembly" met for the first time. The same faces gathered around the same microphones--with one exception: the Russians were boycotting the "Little Assembly." The Russian microphone was dead.

P: The Temporary Commission on Korea left for its destination. It faced a mixed reception. Cried the Russian-controlled radio in Northern Korea: "[The commission] covers up ... sinister, aggressive ambitions. . . ." An organization called the "League of Koreans Residing in Japan" attacked the commission in somewhat overheated English. Verbatim excerpts: "Of course we are still feeling our respects for U.N. efforts in each their positions in achieving to establish a complete independent Korea but ... anyhow seeing from the past experience and the present situation there is little hope. . . ."

P: India appealed to the Security Council to stop Pakistan's "active aggression" against Kashmir (also known as India's "Happy Valley"). Since Kashmir's Hindu Maharaja Sir Hari Singh had aligned his state with India (TIME, Nov. 11), Moslem fighters had continually raided his country. India charged that Pakistan actively assisted the raiders. India's Premier Nehru formally warned the U.N. that, "in self-defense," India might have to invade Pakistan.

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