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Mississippi's Senator Theodore Gilmore ("The Man") Bilbo, still champion of white supremacy at 68, had an important communiqué for the waiting world. He smoothed his bright red necktie, adjusted the diamond horseshoe stickpin that he bought for $92.50 at a 1916 auction. Then he announced...
...world had learned that Big Three communiqués never solve as much as they seem to, so optimism over the results was tinged with considerable caution. But by any reckoning, the meeting had at least got big-power collaboration started again. Now UNO could come on from the wings without having the curtain suddenly rung down on it. The peace-making could go forward...
...Gnomes & Communiqués. Byrnes went to Spasso House, the U.S. embassy, where he spent the next morning reading a long document prepared in Washington to brief him on Big Three issues throughout the world. Bevin went to the British embassy, where Ambassador Clark Kerr turned over to him his living room-bedroom-bath apartment which he calls "Proust" because it has a paneled bath room like the one in which Author Marcel Proust's Albertine used to splash. Clark Kerr's bedroom has dark walnut paneling under a royal blue border with gold flow ers. The paneling...
...meeting was sufficient agreement between the Three to permit convocation of a general peace conference and to dispel the clouds of suspicion that hover over UNO. The conferees, however, stressed mininium objectives. Said Byrnes: "It will not be a bad sign if this meeting does not produce any communiqué announcing agreements." Said Bevin: "Patience is a more important word than hope...
...nearly two years the small (circ. 230,000) city -slicker New Yorker and the mighty, midget-sized Reader's Digest (circ. 11,000,000) have been on the outs. In a frigidly phrased communiqué to his contributors in February 1944, wire-haired Harold W. Ross, terrier-tempered editor of the New Yorker, served notice that his magazine was through being Digested...