Word: luxembourgers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...third night, grappling with the economic clauses of the Balkan treaties, they reeled off 17 hours of continuous session-broken only by a ten-minute recess at 4 a.m. to permit delegates to get bracers before the bar closed. At the finish, U.S. Economist Willard Thorp slumped down Luxembourg's red-carpeted stairway and crawled into an automobile. He groaned that he had a crick in his neck, cramps in his fingers, aches everywhere; that he wanted a haircut, shave, bath, sleep. As he left, Senator Arthur Vandenberg, sprucely pink, walked into the committee room. "Ah," said a reporter...
There was scarcely more agreement among delegates at the Paris Peace Conference. In their first 48 fight-filled days at the Luxembourg Palace, the peacemakers had agreed on only 69 of the 223 clauses in the five peace treaties. Last week they began working nights to meet their new Oct. 20 deadline. Otherwise, they would clash once more with the twice-postponed U.N. General Assembly, now definitely set for New York City on Oct. 23. Only optimists thought they would make...
Plush chairs caused trouble in Paris too. The reason: fleas. Thousands of the active insects, charmed out of the Luxembourg Palace's aging red plush chairs by the human warmth of some 1,200 delegates, kept the peacemakers busy scratching. A U.S. correspondent offered to write a ballad entitled: "I've Got That Luxembourg Itch...
...managed to buy just one cargo of linseed from the Uruguayans and a second, through UNRRA, in Argentina. They had also purchased several thousand tons of fat and tallow, 500 tons of bacon, 500 tons of ham. But Soviet-Argentine trade was about as bustling as trade between Luxembourg and Andorra...
...Luxembourg Palace, Zinchenko sat through the long debates beside Molotov and Vishinsky. Whenever he left the Palace, his black portfolio tucked under the arm of his London-made suit, reporters beset him with questions. All evening long, his telephone rang in his small, untidy office at the embassy in the Rue de Crenelle...