12 JULY 1946, Page 4

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The U.N.O. authorities don't want U.N.O. to be U.N.O. U.N., it is pointed out, stands for United Nations, which is right, U.N.O. for United Nations Organisation, which is wrong. We are therefore exhorted, all of us, to speak not of U.N:O. but of U.N. I am afraid it is too late. U.N.O. is a dear and distinctive dissyllable. Who could seriously go around tanking of U.N., like an illiterate person referring to a German? U.N.O. is firmly established by now in the Anglo-American vocabulary, and Mr. Bevin and Mr. Byrnes between them will not eradicate it. JANUS.