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...Dunmow, Essex, England...
...Street (four blocks north), expressed audible worry lest the Russians fabricate atomic bombs in the basement. ¶ The Argentine envoys, who arrived early and ensconced themselves at the Waldorf-Astoria, excited the envy of other Latin American delegations unable to find lodgings on Park Avenue. The British were at Essex House, handy for early-morning constitutionals in Central Park. The Liberian delegation found the color line nonexistent at Brooklyn's elegant St. George. The astonishingly anonymous-looking U.S. delegation (see cut) had a whole floor at the Pennsylvania. ¶ Senator Connally, with more than 150 other westbound diplomats...
...During Nürnberg's preliminary deliberations, the British had opposed hangings: their long experience in political executions (Essex, Sir Thomas More, Charles I, Robert Emmet, Nathan Hale) had taught them that posterity remembers the victim's dramatic last appearance better than the execution cause. The condemned at Nürnberg did not fail to make the most of their chance. While the late Joachim von Ribbentrop was still swinging from the first gallows, Field Marshal General Wilhelm Keitel, in well-pressed uniform and gleaming boots, mounted the second scaffold briskly, as though it were a reviewing stand...
...Gave the nation's thanks and Presidential citations for "extraordinary heroism" to the men of eight aircraft carriers - the Belleau Wood, Bunker Hill, Cabot, Essex, Hornet, Lexington, San Jacinto and Yorktown...
Strangling the hopes of his opponent for State Senator, who sought to clinch the decision by running both party tickets, Phillip K. Allen, of Andover, of the Counsellor for Veterans office will carry the Crimson and G.O.P banners side by side next November in the Fourth Essex district...