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...leather merchant and provincial politician from mid-France who, last February, was summoned from obscurity to accept the perishable honor of providing France with her 17th government since the Liberation. Antoine Pinay is a small (5 ft. 7 in., 155 lbs.), trig man who, in unguarded moments, resembles Charlie Butterworth with a mustache. He might be the man the French lexicographers meant when they defined petit bourgeois in the dictionary-respectable, thrifty and discreet; at home with account books but uneasy with the great books; shrewd and commonsensical, and sometimes, underneath the humdrum exterior, imaginatively simple. He slipped into...
...career men are generally quiet men, and inclined to be scholarly. One (W. Walton Butterworth, in Sweden) is a Rhodes Scholar; another (J. Rives Childs, in Ethiopia) writes novels and histories under a pseudonym (Henry Filmer), and carries an enormous private library with him wherever he goes...
Several years ago, during World War II, the Japanese district commander at Butterworth, near Singapore, ordered the destruction of a local Hindu temple to make way for an airfield. Local laborers refused to tear down the shrine; the deity who dwelt within, they said, did not want to move. The Japanese gave up. Last week the tactful British, who also want to build an airfield at Butterworth, tried their luck in their own way. They approached the Hindu god through proper diplomatic channels-a local poojari, or medium. After spreading the temple liberally with sweet-smelling blossoms, coconuts, saffron...
...question of who failed is to be found right in Foggy Bottom. There the China policy is now quietly referred to, behind hands, as "the China mistake." Most of the old Far East policymakers have been scattered to other fields. John Carter Vincent was sent to Switzerland. Walton Butterworth, who followed Vincent as head of the Far East section, was sent to Sweden. The most notable survivor among the architects of the "China mistake" is Secretary Acheson...
...They were married by Rev. Josiah Butterworth, who last week . . . gave us a nice order for handbills. Jennie and Bob left ... to visit the bride's uncle, who, we understand, has lots of money...