Word: henry
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before the year was out, however, the Russian flood was contained. On the dam that held it many men had labored- Bevin and Bidault, General Lucius Clay in Germany, Mark Clark in Austria, The Netherlands' Eelco van Kleffens and Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak in U.N., Mac-Arthur in Japan, Chiang Kai-shek in China, and, eminently, Senator Arthur Vandenberg in the U.S. But the dam's chief builder was James F. Byrnes of Spartanburg, S.C., who became the firm and patient voice of the U.S. in the councils of the world...
...Europe's finest fantasists, sold almost as fast as he could paint them. Last week the first full-dress U.S. exhibition of his buff-bare ladies was on display at a Manhattan gallery, sponsored by well-clothed U.N. General Assembly President (and Belgian Foreign Minister) Paul-Henri Spaak. By careful culling, the show bared no pubic hairs, was guaranteed not to rouse the same censorship problems that harried Delvaux's recently imported painting, Temptation of St. Anthony (TIME, Sept...
...there any objection?" asked Assembly President Paul-Henri Spaak of Belgium...
Last week Henri Laurent, a hardware clerk on Paris' fusty southern edge, unburdened his mind. "Voyez vous," said Laurent, "for five long years I stood here and watched the Boche walking arrogantly around my quarter. In those days I never thought I could ever again have a surfeit of democracy. To get out of bed on Sunday morning and walk to the polling booth does not seem a very heavy price to pay for freedom, but the French people are wearying of the process...
...heads the Department of Security Council Affairs. The others: Economics-David Kemp Owen, mountain-climbing, poetry-loving Welshman and Foreign Office career man; Administrative & Financial Services-Kentucky's thin-shelled John B. Hutson, former director of the tobacco, sugar, rice & peanuts division of AAA; Social Affairs-sharp-eyed Henri Laugier, former professor of physiology at the Sorbonne; Legal Affairs -Ivan Kerno, Czech jurist, veteran of the League and the French underground; and Trusteeships-Dr. Victor Hoo, witty Washington-born Chinese diplomat, who makes a sweeping claim to be a citizen of the world: "It's merely accidental that...