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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After that, the conference got down to business. "Let the mind of man be free," cried U.S. Delegation Chairman George V. Allen, "and it will soar to undreamed of heights of majesty. Let people understand each other, and they will create a world order of peace and human betterment...
Plans for a Study. Despite its crystal days & nights, Beirut was not entirely free of haze last week. On the southern outskirts of the city, past Parliament Square, where a bemused policeman stood directing traffic with one hand and counting his beads with the other, delegates from 44 countries were gathered for the third annual conference of UNESCO (the United Nations' Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization). Their purpose was to remove all global misunderstandings...
...Western man has never fully known his future law, for it is always still to be made. Agreement or consent is given not to the substance, but to the authoritative source that has the right to make it. In order to establish democracy, one has to establish not only free choice of representatives; one has first to establish the legislative function that representatives are to exercise. The implanting of democracy in custom-ruled societies requires simultaneous performance of two great tasks which, in the West, were carried out in sequence...
Tanner spent eight hours of each prison day writing four volumes of memoirs and several translations, including Harold Laski's Reflections on the Revolution of Our Time and Wendell Berge's Cartels: Challenge to a Free World. His earnings from royalties were between $10,000 and $37,000. After his daily stint, the onetime Foreign Minister would spend an hour or two playing the Italian bowling game boccie with nine fellow prisoners, all former cabinet ministers. "We all became champions at the game," says Tanner...
...Southgate, near London, a queue of expectant voters lining up for a local election wound up at a fish & chips stand instead of the polling booth. At Southampton, the Queen Elizabeth, free at last of the dockers' strike and loaded with 1,600 passengers itching to be on the go, was unable to cast her moorings. Parisians could see scarcely 30 yards ahead. In Berlin the airlift was halted for 15 hours, and in Denmark harbors, fishing smacks rolled blindly and helplessly at anchor. Even in London's deep Underground last week there were wispy traces...