Word: edouard
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...trust the Kremlin to live dangerously, but without going to war-is seized upon avidly by Frenchmen seeking new excuses to obstruct German rearmament, by Britons who fear that rearmament is the road to bankruptcy, by Germans anxious to reopen trade between the Ruhr and Russia. French Elder Statesman Edouard Herriot last week thought the time ripe to try to scuttle the European Army (see below). In Britain, Emanuel Shinwell, former Laborite Minister of Defense, cheerfully proposed that Britain's draft period could be safely relaxed from two years to 18 months...
Though France's old (80) Edouard Herriot is nowadays something of a cipher, he is also something of a symbol. Associated in most minds with the stirring days of Aristide Briand and the invincible Clemenceau. Herriot is 1) President (Speaker) of the French National Assembly, 2) leader of the influential rightist Radical Socialist Party. Last week Herriot the symbol threw a symbolic wrench into the delicate engineering of the European Defense Community...
Then, when she was 27, Berthe was introduced to a rising young artist named Edouard Manet, and the meeting colored her whole life. She became more serious about art, wrote Manet long, involved letters on what she had learned from Corot, persuaded him to leave his dim studio to paint bright countrysides and farms. In Paris, she often posed for the young painter, developed a womanly jealousy when he sometimes used another model. Berthe never admitted anything more than friendship for Manet; he was a married man. But she stayed close by, eventually married his brother Eugene...
...Manhattan, and had assisted Rockefeller in his purchase and gift of the building site. Lie's first step was to name Harrison director of planning; then a consulting board of design was brought together from member nations. France sent brilliant, temperamental Le Corbusier (real name: Charles Edouard Jeanneret), famous for developing the city-in-a-park idea in the '20s. The others: Australia's G. A. Soilleux, Belgium's Gaston Brunfaut, Brazil's Oscar Niemeyer, Britain's Howard Robertson, Canada's Ernest Cormier, China's Ssu-ch'eng Liang, Russia...
...Edouard Fankhauser, president of the Swiss Nudist Club, regards the Helsinki Olympics as a "travesty." Said he last week: "The ancient athletes performed in the nude . . . It would be so much better if the youth of the world . . . remained faithful to the old ideals." So saying, Nudist Fankhauser stepped back inside the barb-wired camp on the shore of Switzerland's Lake of Neuchatel, where some 50 naked men & women from six European countries were competing in "the real Olympiad." U.S. nudists (TIME, Aug. 25) were invited, but decided not to take off for Europe...