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...John Bratby, 27, who brought gallerygoers up short at his last show with his bluntest tour de force: two stark paintings of a toilet bowl...
...five years, the men of immobilism who had governed France had been found wanting-so wanting that 5,400,000 voters cast their ballots for the Communists and gave the Communists increased representation in Parliament. But the bluntest verdict came from a bookseller whose only program was a refusal to pay taxes, and whose only remedy was to get rid of the old gang. "Throw the rascals out!" cried Pierre Poujade-and 2,400,000 Frenchmen gave him their vote in what Poujade himself called "an explosion of despair...
...Issue Is How. Abroad, the reaction was one of incredulity and mounting disgust. Britain's Anthony Eden issued the bluntest statement in years. "It is clear that what is at stake is the unity of the Western allies. The issue is not whether the German Federal Republic will rearm, but how." In Washington John Foster Dulles suggested that the vote raised a serious question as to France's ability to take the kind of decision required of a responsible ally...
...such would be to give her a legal foothold in South Korea; the U.N. had gone quite far enough by its willingness to accept as neutrals the Soviet stooges, Czechoslovakia and Poland. But the Communist negotiators stick stubbornly to the demand, even though the U.N. has said (in its bluntest words yet) that its position is "firm, final and irrevocable." Even if this issue can be settled, there remains the question of exchanging prisoners, and of permitting North Korea to build up airfields during the truce...
Obviously Candidate Dewey had not hurt his political standing any by his social behavior. Not only had he expressed his feelings about Commies in the bluntest possible way, he had also shown that he was no man to break bread with a Red and like it. And except for the Reds and their friends, no one could work up much indignation over the governor's manners. Even the professionally proper could only cluck disapprovingly. "What he said was entirely true," said the Times, "but there is a time and place for everything...