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Denis William Brogan, a Cambridge University don (political science) and BBC adviser on U.S. affairs, is fast becoming the western world's most frequent spokesman on Anglo-American characteristics. By birth (1900) a Scots-Irish Glaswegian, Brogan was educated at Glasgow, Oxford and Harvard, has since published scholarly, lively studies of three nations-The American Character, The English People, The Free State. His newest foray is a collection of 27 essays on French figures and subjects ranging from political and military (including Clemenceau, Jaures, Darlan, De Gaulle) to literary (Dumas, Proust...
...college population bulged to 2,000,000 (double that of 1936) without assuring any comparable multiplication of national wisdom. Patients in U.S. mental hospitals also reached 600,000 as against 516,000 ten years ago. In the U.S. divorces were one-third as frequent as marriages; in Egypt, nearly half...
From Hungary: Paul Auer is Hungary's Minister to Paris. He is an international lawyer of Europe-wide reputation, who turned diplomat a year ago. Between World Wars I & II, he was a frequent legal adviser to the French Government and acted for the U.S. legation in Switzerland on some cases with which the League of Nations was concerned. Long an advocate of international cooperation and of European federation, Lawyer Auer in 1936 offered a plan to strengthen the League of Nations by adding to it an economic and social council. The League did not adopt this idea...
...friend of Pope Pius XII, is as American as an apple dumpling - a onetime trolley-car conductor who now holds an airplane pilot's license. During the war, as Military Vicar to the U.S. Armed Forces (and chief of about 5,000 Catholic chaplains) and as a frequent Vatican envoy, he became one of the world's most traveled men (120,000 miles...
...pact now before the Dutch States-General was drafted last month at Linggadjati. There, with Lord Killearn in the chair, Schermerhorn, van Mook and Soekarno (Sjahrir had one of his frequent colds) haggled out an agreement. The issue finally boiled down to a sentence in Article 2 which referred to Indonesia as a "free democratic state." Soekarno's Economics Minister, 38-year-old A. K. Gani (who once acted in a Batavian-made movie True Love), objected: "That word 'free' is not enough. It should be 'sovereign.' " Van Mook turned to Soekarno: "Will you accept...