A Shade of Difference

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A SHADE OF DIFFERENCE
ALLEN DRURY
In this powerful sequel to Advise and Consent, Allen Drury moves from Washington to the United Nations, to carry forward the lives and careers of many of the characters who figured in his first, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of politics.
The reader again finds himself swept up in the lives of such vivid people as Senator Seabright B. Cooley of South Carolina, Secretary of State Orrin Knox, President Harley M. Hudson, Senate Majority Leader Robert Munson, Senator Lafe Smith of Iowa and many others.
In addition, he meets these colorful new characters:
• Representative Cullee Hamilton of California, a young, honest, troubled, Negro Congressman who finds himself caught in the middle of the conflict between the races;
• His Royal Highness Terence Ajkaje, the M'bulu of Mbuele—"Terrible Terry"—who, in seeking independence for his native Gorotoland, tries to stir up as much trouble as he can for the United States;
• Ambassador Felix Labaiye-Sofra of Panama, dedicated to that same aim;
• Senator Hal Fry of West Virginia, the acting head of the U.S. delegation to the U.N., who tries to find a middle course between the needs of his country and the demands of the new nations of Africa and Asia;
• The Secretary-General of the United Nations, who strives to maintain
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honor and integrity in a position made increasingly difficult by the onslaughts of the Communist bloc and the growing divisions of the General Assembly.
The novel begins when Terrible Terry comes to the United States to plead Go-rotoland's cause before the U.N. During his visit to America he is honor guest at a luncheon in South Carolina. There he injects himself into the racial problems and is involved in a riot that brings world-wide attention and an immediate anti-American uproar in the United Nations.
In Washington the result is a Congressional resolution of apology to Terry inspired by Secretary of State Knox, introduced by Congressman Hamilton and opposed by Senator Cooley.
At the U. N., where Felix Labaiya has already introduced a resolution demanding independence for Terry's country, he introduces an amendment condemning the United States for its racial practices, which has overwhelming support from the Afro-Asian and Communist blocs.
Around the fate of the Hamilton Resolution in the Congress and the Labaiya Amendment in the United Nations, Allen Drury has woven the second of his major tapestries of our times, crowded with vitally alive characters who try, with all human imperfections, idealism and uncertainties, to grapple with two of the most serious issues of the Twentieth Century—the conflict between the white and the colored races, both iir America and around the globe—and the future of a United Nations possessed of a great potential but increasingly torn by the bitter passions of its member states.
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