UNITED NATIONS: The Bogey of Colonialism

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France and Germany, and make any kind of alliance with Germany impossible. Said the economic weekly La Vie Française last week: "[Juin] has expressed himself with measure and firmness. The Americans pursuing quite opposite ends have come to use the same language as Moscow and to reach the same conclusions: France must hand over. But France knows what she has accomplished in North Africa and does not ignore what remains to be done .. . France is an old enough nation, rich enough in experience, to determine herself the means to employ and the best moment to choose."

The shadow of the Middle East fell darkly over the brand-new $12,250,000 U.N. General Assembly Building in New York as representatives of 60 nations filed in for their seventh session. The African-Asian countries were prepared to insist that the Tunisian nationalists be heard. The French felt that they were being put on trial before the world largely by a collection of backward, undemocratic states whose plumbing, politics and sense of public order are far worse than those of Morocco or Tunisia. The U.S., divided between its desire to please an ally and its sentimental aversion to the old fighting word "colonialism," was in a tough spot.