dated Feb. 2, 1951: Korea out of Security Council Agenda

At Lake Success, the U.N. Security Council unanimously decided on 31st January to delete the Korean question from its agenda. Britain proposed the deletion: the Soviet Union quickly agreed, and all eleven members held up their hands when the President called for the vote. President of the Council, Senor Antonio Quevedo of Ecuador, remarked, ``I am glad that, at this meeting at least, we have achieved unanimity.''

The deletion was necessary because the General Assembly could not make a recommendation on any question being dealt with by the Security Council. Deletionof the Korean question from the Council's agenda was made to pave way for the General Assembly to ratify a resolution by the Political Committee condemning Communist China as an aggressor.

She Gets Poor Deal!

From the Editorials: ``An old tradition speaks of a ship as a female. This was perhaps more appropriate in the era of the sailing ship, when a gallant schooner going out with a favourable wind, her canvas- bright as gulls' wings - gracefully billowing, was the very picture of a staid Victorian matron in her voluminous skirts. Today's steamship has none of the coquetry or charming dependence on human intelligence and contrivance of its predecessor.

A Polish steamer pulled into New York the other day for dry-dock and paint-work, but American workmen would not touch her. That insult must deeply rankle in any gentle breast that knows the allure of cosmetics.''

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