As the debate in the Peace Conference Rules Committee dragged on, the Russians last week were startled, annoyed—and a bit impressed and pleased—to hear some blunt talk from a new voice, speaking in a rolling Glaswegian burr.
The voice belonged to stocky, sandy-haired British Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Hector McNeil. As Molotov doggedly insisted that voting procedure was a substantive matter requiring a two-thirds vote, McNeil's pawky accent cut the smoke. "How can the voting procedure be substantive when, by very definition, the Rules Committee is only qualified to deal...
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