Word: britain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Edouard Herriot, Assembly president and perennial mayor of Lyon. In his pale green salon, Herriot last week received several diplomatic callers. They settled on red-upholstered, gilt Louis XV chairs, beneath five huge crystal chandeliers, to discuss one of Europe's great hopes: Western Union. They got nowhere. Britain and France were deeply divided...
Assembly v. Conference. Last year, France and Belgium had suggested formation of a "consultative assembly" as a first step toward a Western Union parliament. The matter had been referred to a committee of five (Britain, France and the Benelux nations). The French, who took the role of the hare in the race toward union (if race it was), wanted an assembly whose delegates would directly represent their countries' population. They would vote publicly, without regard to the nations' official policies. They could not commit their governments to action; they could, however, stir up public opinion at home...
...Herriot's salon to see whether they could get to a compromise. The French were represented by tough little ex-Premier Paul Reynaud and by vague old Leon Blum. Horse-faced Hugh Dalton, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, headed the British delegation. Dalton offered a concession: Britain would agree to a European "conference" to meet publicly (once a year for three weeks), but the delegates must still be bound by the instructions of their governments. Up from his fragile chair popped Paul Reynaud. "You would find no one willing to sit in a pseudo-parliament of this nature...
...Mapai, the mildly socialist party of Premier Ben-Gurion and Foreign Minister Moshe Shertok, which roughly corresponds to Britain's Labor Party. It favors "democratic" socialism, limited Western orientation, peace with the Arabs. It is generally expected to win, though not by as large a margin as Ben-Gurion and Shertok are fighting for. It has optimistically nominated 118 candidates for the 120 posts to be filled. "The other two places," cracked Israelis last week, "are for the opposition...
...Britain's Moira Shearer, red-haired prima ballerina of the movie The Red Shoes (TIME, Oct. 25), panned her own film as bad ballet. In a lecture to London's Royal Academy of Dancing, she said that making the picture had been a "mistake," and that furthermore, the display advertising made her look like "Jane Russell in black tights...