Word: hartleys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...five-man Atomic Energy Commission. The board: Harvard President James Bryant Conant; Dr. Lee A. DuBridge, president of the California Institute of Technology; Nobel Prize Physicists Enrico Fermi (University of Chicago) and I. I. Rabi (Columbia University); ex-Los Alamos Director J. R. Oppenheimer (University of California); Hartley Rowe, chief engineer of the United Fruit Co. ; Chemistry Professor Glenn T. Seaborg (University of California), Cyril Stanley Smith, director of the University of Chicago's Institute of Metals; Hood Worthington, chemical engineer for E. I. Du Pont de Nemours...
...week, matters had not looked so good. One night-which became famed as "gentleman's agreement" night - the bright lights at Flushing beat down on a dapper, suave, self-assured diplomat with a red handkerchief flopping out of his coat pocket. This was Britain's Sir Hartley Shawcross, 44, a quick-witted prosecutor who had not yet learned that, at international conferences, haste makes waste, or worse...
...battered question of a troop census was still under discussion. Shawcross had taunted Russia's Molotov because of Russia's reluctance to include a census of home troops. Molotov taunted Sir Hartley with Britain's unwillingness to include information on armaments - all armaments. When the Russian was through, the Briton rushed to the rostrum. Cried he: "I accept the challenge! I think this is going to be a historic occasion...
Second Thoughts. In effect, Sir Hartley had committed the U.S. to disclose information on its stockpile of A-bombs and fissionable material as soon as the contemplated commission could be set up. All this seemed to fly right over Senator Connally's head, for the orotund Texan made no relevant comment. Next day, however, there was a great...
Almost inextricably tangled, the troop-and-armament matter was hustled back to subcommittee. Sir Hartley tried simultaneously to save, face for Britain, and The Bomb for the U.S., by rewriting his resolution, whereupon Russia's Vishinsky accused him of welshing on his "gentleman's agreement" with Molotov. Assembly President Spaak (who happened to be the subcommittee chairman, and who has been an unpublicized tower of strength during the whole meeting) saved the day by separating the troop question from the armament question. The troop count was abandoned; the disarmament plan, thus disencumbered, was sent on to the plenary...