THE U.N.'S TENTH

THAT planetary ark of man's peaceful aspirations, the U.N., rode hopefully high last week as the General Assembly met in Manhattan for its tenth annual session. In all their formal addresses and still more in their hand-pumping greetings along the crowded, glass-walled corridors 500 delegates from 60 nations talked up "the Geneva spirit" that appeared to be abating tensions. In token of the new cordiality, the Assembly on the first ballot chose its president by unanimous vote. He is Chile's portly, polished Jose Maza, 66, a U.N. parliamentarian of ten years' standing. With Molotov protesting only mildly for the record, the Assembly voted for the sixth year (42-to-12) against considering Red China for membership. But after Molotov's standpat opening speech, only one of the three major agenda items (disarmament, atoms-for-peace, charter revision) seemed destined to benefit in a practical way from "the Geneva spirit." That was President Eisenhower's proposal, endorsed by the Russians at the summit meeting, for a U.N. center for joint development of the peaceful uses of atomic energy.

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