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'One Russia'

I was disturbed at the omission
of several points in your "One China" November 3, 1971 article.
For the first time in its 26-year
history, the U.N. took the drastic
step of expelling a member. And it
did so not because Taiwan
perpetrated any acts of aggression,
but to appease a major power.
Mainland China's price for
admission to the U.N. was the
expulsion of Taiwan. Any
organization which appeases a large
member at the expense of a smaller
one is guilty of compromising its
honor, and perhaps its future.

Also disquieting was the
Assembly's disregard for the U.S.
plea that expelling a member isn't a
major issue, what is?

Finally to your statement that,
"the admission of Peking as the
only true representative of the
Chinese people had to come." Since
important issues can now be
determined by close votes (Peking
passed by 59 to 55). I think we
should re-evaluate the distribution
of votes. The Soviet Union now
casts 3 votes under the fiction that
Byelorussia and the Ukraine are
separate nations. The U.N. has
ruled that there is only one China.
Now everyone knows that there is
only "One Russia" and that
Byelorussia and the Ukraine are a
part of it with infinitely less
independence than Taiwan. Why
not expel them?