Word: henrys
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Picasso's attachment to the Communist Party has been subject to fits and starts. He let the party make his Peace Dove (actually a lithograph of a white fantail pigeon Henri Matisse had given him as a present) a propaganda symbol the world over, and Communist Boss Maurice Thorez is a frequent and conspicuous guest at Picasso's villa at Cannes. But when someone asked Picasso what he would do if France became a satellite and he was ordered to paint the party line, Picasso exploded: "If they stopped my painting, I would draw on paper. If they...
...statesmen signed-first Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak, who presided over the drafting of the treaties, then Christian Pineau of France, Konrad Adenauer of Germany, Antonio Segni of Italy, Joseph Bech of Luxembourg and Joseph Luns of The Netherlands. Hardheaded politicians all, the signers were only too aware that the treaties might yet fail to win ratification in one or another of their parliaments (particularly the French), but even that realization could not dim the drama and promise of the moment. "If we succeed," said Belgium's Spaak, "today will be one of the most important dates...
...Pierre-Henri Simon, a left-wing Roman Catholic intellectual, recently stirred Paris with a controversial book on Algeria, Contre la Torture. Simon reproduces affidavits by torture victims, statements by French priests and extracts of journals of French army and police officers, and he quotes a letter from a soldier: "On the afternoon of Dec. 3 some gendarmes invited some soldiers to watch tortures of two Arabs arrested the night before. The first torture consisted in suspending the two men, entirely nude, by the feet, hands tied behind their backs, and plunging their heads into a pail of water for long...
...boasts an impressive list of enthusiastic supporters led by Painters Pablo Picasso, Georges Rouault, Georges Braque and the late Henri Matisse. Picasso and Matisse were so enchanted by the process that they hastened to do a few themselves. "Magnifique!" cried Braque. "If I were
...Henri DeBayle, chairman of the Student Council's NSA committee, is satisfied with Harvard's showing, but he doubts that the petition will have any real effect. A similar petition in 1952 helped stop a similar segregation drive, but De-Bayle pointed out that the current prime minister, Dirk Strijdom, has a firmer apartheid policy than his predecessor, and cares less for world opinion...