Five non-Communist countries knocked at U.N.’s door last week, hoping to get in. The five: Libya, Japan, Viet Nam, Cambodia and Laos (the last three are more or less autonomous states formed from the former French colony of Indo-China). Ten of eleven Security Council members voted to admit all five. But Russia’s Jacob Malik blackballed them by casting Soviet vetoes, Nos. 51 to 55 incl.
In the debate over Libya, Malik brought up an old Russian proposal for a package deal: if the Security Council admits Red satellites Albania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Rumania and Outer Mongolia, Russia will no longer veto such other Western-supported applicants as Austria, Ceylon, Finland, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Nepal and Portugal.
The Security Council said no deal.
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