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...Raymond Mathieu, 22, clean-cut, bespectacled law student: "I was brought up with Socialist ideas, my family prepared the groundwork. I joined the Communist Party because it's dynamic...
...chief of U.N.'s language division, Mathieu heads 49 interpreters and translators in the U.S. and Europe. To help them, he has propounded four ground rules which might well serve as a simple syllabus of pentecostal understanding in a Tower-of-Babel...
...Always go easy on reproducing oratorical violence-even though some diplomats resent it. Last year in Berlin, a British delegate branded a colleague's statement as a "damn lie." Mathieu rendered this in French as: "The honorable gentleman has not told the facts in a manner which checks with the information which I myself have on those facts." The Britisher insisted that all he had said was: "That is a damn...
...Know what you are talking about. Mathieu insists that an interpreter must know all about U.N. affairs and current history-and a great many other things as well. When the Iranian Ambassador told the Council how Premier Gavam had been dined & wined in Moscow last month, the French interpretation mentioned only dining. Wine, Mathieu explained later, was a matter of course to a Frenchman...
...Avoid blunders. Mathieu recalls how one of his Geneva colleagues, a gentleman of impressive girth, all but broke up a session when he slapped his paunch and solemnly repeated after a woman delegate: "Speaking as a wife and as a devoted mother...