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...Drew Pearson revealed in one of his columns early in 1945, the motives for the British policy in Greece were at least partly linked to the fact that Hambro's Bank of London, the chief British creditors of Greece . . . had bailed Winston Churchill out of bankruptcy...
Prokofiev: Sonata In D Major for Violin and Piano (Joseph Szigeti with Leonid Hambro, pianist; Columbia, 6 sides). One of Prokofiev's most lyrical scores, recorded expertly and for the first time by the violinist who introduced it in the U.S. in 1944. Performance: excellent...
Furtively the delegates studied their watches as tall, purposeful Rapporteur Madame C. A. Clyver droned her way through report after report. Then at last the interminable verbosity that had plagued the League's whole life came to an end. "Our business is done," announced President Carl Hambro. "We have lost many illusions, many ideals, but a better, stronger instrument has been forged. . . . Today is what is known in America as Commencement...
Married. Carl Joachim Hambro, 60, well-to-do, Conservative president of Norway's Odelsting (Lower House of Parliament), onetime president of the League Assembly, now a UNO delegate; and Gyda Christensen, 73, Norse actress; he for the second time, she for the third; in Oslo...
...League of Nations, ventured: "This time we will pull it off." Backstopping French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault was silver-maned, dark-skinned Joseph Paul-Boncour, who called himself "an oldtimer at this sort of thing." En route he met for the first time in years his old friend Carl Hambro, Norwegian President of the League of Nations, who was too polite to pull rank with airlines and got "bumped" from his plane seat in Atlanta...