Did Cousins Cozen the Pilots?

A man who was there tells the on-again-off-again story of the UN emblem. United Air Lines, Norman Cousins and the Airline Pilots’ Association

On November 10, 1958 the convention of the Airline Pilots’ Association voted unanimous support of the United Nations. A few weeks before, the editor of the Saturday Review, Norman Cousins, had initiated a boycott of United Air Lines because that company, on the demand of customers, had removed the United Nations emblem from its aircraft. In urging the boycott, editor Cousins admitted that United did a good job of running an airline, but laid down this frightening bit of Liberal dogma:

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A man who was there tells the on-again-off-again story of the UN emblem. United Air Lines, Norman Cousins and the Airline Pilots’ Association

On November 10, 1958 the convention of the Airline Pilots’ Association voted unanimous support of the United Nations. A few weeks before, the editor of the Saturday Review, Norman Cousins, had initiated a boycott of United Air Lines because that company, on the demand of customers, had removed the United Nations emblem from its aircraft. In urging the boycott, editor Cousins admitted that United did a good job of running an airline, but laid down this frightening bit of Liberal dogma: