Home Front in WWIII 1946
0930
Emergency Meeting
Of the Security Council of the United Nations,
U.N. Temporary Headquarters,
San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
According to the by-laws
governing the operations of the United Nations organization, the only Soviet
diplomats with portfolio allowed to operate inside the United States were those
who were assigned to this body. However, because the on-going hostilities
between their nation, and the Western Powers, their movements were scrutinized
in a way they had never before experienced here. In a perverse way, it made
them feel at home.
As all the diplomats from the
permanent members of the Security Council began to file into the chamber, the
tension was so thick that it became difficult to concentrate on the issues at
hand. After all, the meeting had been called at the behest of the host nation,
the United States, which could not bode well for the Soviet delegates. As the
ambassadors all took their seats, the delegate designated as today's meeting
chair gaveled the session into order.
All of the old Security Council
business was disposed of and the meeting quickly moved onto the emergency
matter at hand: the attempt by the Soviet Union to take control of the United
Nations by installing ambassadors from the European countries that they have
overrun, especially trying to suborn France's seat on the Security Council with
Stalin's own hand-picked French representative. The other three permanent
members and the representative of the exiled government of France all objected
strenuously, precipitating today's emergency session.
The meeting began with the
ambassador from the government-in-exile of France railing against the Soviet
Union's motion to replace him as lawful representative of the Fourth French
Republic to the United Nations Security Council. Each of the other permanent
members of the Security Council had their turn, with the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and the Republic of China using their vetoes against the Soviet
proposal, with the ambassadors to the Soviet Union and the United States of
America yet to speak. The ambassador for the United States makes his
impassioned veto and as the representative of the Soviet Union stands up to
speak, the other four members of the Security Council stand up and walk out. It
was understood that this would be the final snub to the Soviet Union in it's
quest for legitimacy, and adjournment of the emergency session and the final
dissolution of the United Nations as a working body for the adjudication of international
disputes. The United Nations, as it existed that day, would never meet again.
Awaiting the Soviet diplomats
when they arrived back in their temporary accomodations was a note from the
United States Department of State. It gave the last Soviet citizens left
legally on U.S. soil 24 hours to vacate their accommodations and leave the
United States, or risk arrest as enemy agents. They were gone in less than 12.