Uneasy

The U.N.'s General Assembly opened this week on the World's Fair site at Flushing, N. Y., with Harry Truman on hand to give it a Missouri-style pat on the back. The organizational matters which the Assembly will discuss at this session will collapse like cardboard if the fundamental disputes between East and West are not settled. Men of good will could only hope that the framework of the U.N. would be strengthened by the time peace is delivered.

On the eve of the opening, the following was noteworthy:

P: New York City's Acting Mayor Vincent R. Impellitteri presented to the U.N.'s big, bluff Secretary General Trygve Lie an enormous gilt key to the New York City building on the Fairgrounds. P: Mr. Impellitteri and Park Commissioner Robert Moses also made a formal offer to give the U.N. the 350 acres of Flushing Meadow Park, if the U.N. would choose it as a permanent site. Nourished in the bosom of an urban community, the New York officials believed, the U.N. would find 350 acres enough. P:Since the U.N. will remain in the New York area for at least four or five years, whatever permanent site is finally chosen, Russia's Andrei Gromyko leased a five-story apartment building, ancient but refurbished, on West 88th Street, in a rather dowdy neighborhood. A woman, who probably remembered a cloak-&-dagger film called The House on 92nd Street (four blocks north), expressed audible worry lest the Russians fabricate atomic bombs in the basement. P: The Argentine envoys, who arrived early and ensconced themselves at the Waldorf-Astoria, excited the envy of other Latin American delegations unable to find lodgings on Park Avenue. The British were at Essex House, handy for early-morning constitutionals in Central Park. The Liberian delegation found the color line nonexistent at Brooklyn's elegant St. George. The astonishingly anonymous-looking U.S. delegation (see cut) had a whole floor at the Pennsylvania. P: Senator Connally, with more than 150 other westbound diplomats, was on the Queen Elizabeth, making its first peacetime voyage (see BUSINESS). The most rubbered at and the least gregarious passenger was V. M. Molotov, who was usually surrounded by aides and bodyguards. Both Molotov and Vishinsky bowed deeply whenever they encountered Czechoslovakia's Jan Masaryk. Masaryk was seen reading a detective novel called Uneasy Terms.

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