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...since been used mainly as a museum. To the Palais de Chaillot this week came delegates to the third general session of the U.N. General Assembly. (Parisians called them "Les Onusiens" from Organisation des Nations Unies.)* Noticing a musee ferme sign on a glass door of the Palais, a Frenchman in overalls snarled: "What do they mean, 'museum closed?' What do they think is going on in there...
...anonymous Frenchman had offered Oxford ?1,500,000 ($6,000,000)-biggest gift ever received from a foreigner, and second largest in modern times.* There were a few strings attached. Most of the money was to be used to start a new college. Its name: St. Anthony's. Its general purpose: training young men "of strong will and character as leaders of the future." One-third of the college's undergraduates must be French. A final condition explained the council's unacademic haste: the offer was a take-it-or-leave-it; the donor was about...
Some gloomy reports from Paris last week said that European cooperation had been foiled and that the OEEC would have to ask Washington to slice the ECA pie. That, said one high OEEC official (an earnest Frenchman), was out of the question. "To admit to the Americans that we are incapable of dividing among ourselves the aid which they are giving to Europe would be an admission of European childishness-or decadence-which would make us all in this building very unhappy...
Europeans, to whom politics is grim and often deadly business, were puzzled by the rowdedow. Said one Frenchman: "I understand opera singers come and sing popular songs . . . Surely you cannot consider it sound to nominate a President by singing songs...
...commission of professors-headed by a Frenchman, an Englishman, an American, and a Russian-had finally agreed on a new Outline of History suitable for young German minds. They had carefully ironed out Nazi distortions-and had added some new twists of their own. Soviet Major Vassily Bagrov wanted to say a good deal about "The Shady Aspects of Celibacy" when discussing the Renaissance church. The other powers said no; but they agreed to let him have a chapter on "The Class Struggle on the Eve of the Reformation...