Soviet Speaker Assails U.S. at U.N. Fete
An otherwise tranquil conference in San Francisco commemorating the 40th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations erupted briefly into controversy when a Soviet speaker lashed out at what he called “anti-socialist propaganda” in a speech by U.S. Special Representative Vernon Walters.
Walters told a Monday night dinner for U.N. officials and scholars meeting in the city where the U.N. Charter was signed four decades ago that the organization had been less effective than originally hoped, because Communist nations abuse the self-determination of other nations through subversion and military violence.
Vsevolod Oleandrov, deputy Soviet special representative to the United Nations, replied that the organization’s troubles are entirely due to the “arrogance” of the United States.
“These days,” he said, “the United Nations is the object of much criticism in the West--but not in the East.”
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