Word: notes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sputtering carbide light in the Palazzo Chigi doused. Sir Noel walked into Stygian gloom, groped his way through the Chigi's interminable passages and waiting rooms, conferred ghost-to-ghost with Visconti-Venosta. whose face never cracked a smile. Next day Visconti-Venosta wrote Sir Noel a note reviewing the discussions: "As we were saying yesterday in complete darkness. . . ." Sir Noel got the point. The Chigi got Allied-rationed electricity...
...discussing the issues; he seemed to be talking to himself. Then came the break: Franklin Roosevelt made his famed frolicsome speech to the Teamsters. That brought both Dewey and his campaign to life again. The bulk of his detailed reply at Oklahoma City might soon be forgotten, but one note would stick: "He asked for it. Here...
...Rumania's ex-King Carol was leaving Mexico City for Brazil and Europe last week, a courier from the Soviet Embassy arrived. For Carol he brought a note regretting that a previous engagement kept Russia's Ambassador Constantine Oumansky from waving farewells; for Carol's mistress, Magda Lupescu, a corsage of orchids...
...organization of the Soviet theater. The celebration is taking the form of a series of four "concerts," each lasting nearly five hours and embracing two or three scenes from plays, two or three passages from ballets, readings of poetry, songs, dances and speeches. There is one insistent note that runs through all these things: pride...
...fighting against cruelty, tyranny and treachery in their most detestable forms. That is why we cannot agree with the Pope when he coupled together those who commenced the war with those who prolong it, or when he suggests a negotiated peace." While remaining stern, he ended on a softer note. Said he last week: "For us to accept into full fellowship an offender who has committed wrongs against God and man, who still exults in his wickedness and proposes to repeat it when the occasion offers, would mean that we identified ourselves with his crimes. So far from Germany there...