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Poland, of course, sided with Russia. France's suavely soothing Henri Bonnet gave Russia some unexpected comfort by observing that it would be setting a possibly embarrassing precedent to deprive a small nation of her right to withdraw a complaint against a big nation. But his colleagues were in no mood for compromise...
...Brand in His Bonnet. The changeover from one-man control to many-man control began for McCormick & Co. in 1932. That year, autocratic, hard-driving Willoughby M. McCormick, founder of the business, left it to his nephew Charlie. The new boss looked his 43-year-old gift horse squarely in the teeth and found it shaky financially, low in morale, wary of initiative...
...Henri Bonnet was the logical Frenchman. In an illogical world, the astute historian and ambassador moved warily and worriedly. He spoke with a Frenchman's concern for le mot juste, suggested compromises with a quiet desperation. In his suite at the Hotel Pierre he served his colleagues sherry and petits fours. At week's end, no one was more relieved than he that UNO still held the Big Three...
Very different is the report of the ghost of a little old French lady in a faded green bonnet who tiptoes through the rooms of an old plantation at night. "Tirelessly, she journeys from bedchamber to bedchamber, raising mosquito baires and peering hopefully into the face of each sleeper." It is her doom never to find the face she seeks...
Touché. If the remark bothered le grand Charlie, he did not show it. Next morning it was his turn. He met U.S. newsmen at the sumptuous residence of Ambassador Henri Bonnet. He seemed completely at ease, smiled as a newsman brought up the President's remarks. Oh, yes, said Charlie, he could understand the U.S. President's being "struck" by some stories in France's newspapers. He, himself, had also been frequently "struck" by stories about him in the U.S. press...