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...once-delayed, well-advertised World Security Conference began this week at stately Dumbarton Oaks, a magnificent 16-acre estate set like a jewel in Washington's Georgetown. The 39 delegates, none in a plug hat, strolled down the old pebble walks, through formal gardens, under Chinese scholar trees, across arched bridges over the carp pond. Promptly at 10:30 a.m. they filed into the pink brick Georgian mansion, past the Byzantine and mediaeval objets d'art, into the high-ceilinged music room. There they arranged themselves around a huge U-shaped table covered with the inevitable blotter pads...
Dumbarton Oaks, palatial Washington estato, Art Museum, and scene of the current United Nations conference, has been Harvard property and a subsidiary of Fogg Museum since late in 1940, when it was turned over to the University by Mr. and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss of Georgetown...
...weeks it had bugled announcements of a forthcoming Big Four conference, which would go to work on a rough draft of the Great Blueprint for Peace (TIME, June 12.)* Stately old Dumbarton Oaks, in Washington's fashionable Georgetown, was made ready down to the last pebble on its carefully graveled walks. The U.S. had named its Under Secretary of State, Edward R. Stettinius, as chairman of the U.S. delegation, thus, in diplomatic language, hoping to underscore its view-that other representatives should be at the important level of Under Secretaries. England and China followed suit, appointed the veteran Permanent...
...Division: Major General Raymond O. Barton, 54, stocky, genial West Pointer, former professor of military science at Georgetown, rated a crack tactician...
...Finns. Handsome, clever and soon divorced, Minister Procopé became the ideal extra man at dinner almost as soon as he arrived in 1939. When he finally eloped with the niece of a British countess (he was 50, she 29), hearts broke all over Washington, from Chevy Chase to Georgetown. Minister Procopé's popularity was more than personal. He represented the one country that continued to pay back its World War I debt to the U.S. (he paid an installment just 24 hours before he was expelled). Finland, too, was then the brave little nation which...