Word: friend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...result, Franklin Roosevelt picked him as a delegate to the San Francisco conference which set up U.N. Since then he has been a delegate to the first and second U.N. General Assemblies and to the Inter-American Defense Conference at Rio de Janeiro. Former Secretary of State Byrnes, a friend of Senate days, took him along to the Foreign Ministers conference in Paris and to the Paris peace conference, and he is largely credited with converting Byrnes to his "patience with firmness" policy. By prodding recalcitrants in his own party and by telling the Administration what it could get through...
...Bolshevik in Dinner Jacket. Rival principles, like rival callers, have walked in & out of Spaak's life at top speed. He was born (1899) of a notable and nonconformist Belgian family who felt, in the words of a friend, that they were born to lead Belgium. His maternal grandfather, Paul Janson, and his uncle, Paul Emile Janson, were great Liberal leaders; his father was a well-known playwright; his mother, a Socialist, was the first woman to sit in Belgium's Parliament. At 75, white-haired, good-humored Senator Spaak listens proudly to the speeches...
...hours later police found the friend - a scared, black-eyed 14-year-old named Anthony. At first, the boy acted tough ("Get those reporters outta here," he told police. "I don't want no pitchers took"), but gradually it all came...
...shoot at her ("They all seem O.K. to me"). After the math exam, the detectives began questioning the kids. One boy could only stammer his answers. Questioned further, he admitted that he had not signed his own name to his test paper: he was taking the examination for a friend...
Since you printed the letter from "Zdenek" telling of his gradual acceptance of some of the changes brought about by the Communist rise to power in Czechoslovakia, I though your readers might be interested in this letter I recently received from a friend in Eastern Germany...