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While the Allied representatives, led by Russia, put their names to the Italian peace treaty, Soragna waited. Then, pale but deliberate, he stepped to the big table* in the nearby Galeria de la Paix, and signed for Italy. After his departure, the representatives of Rumania, Bulgaria, Hungary and Finland signed...
...Hitlerite dream of world conquest." The Chicago Tribune was also annoyed, although it seemed to have the opposite objection: "One Worlders Stress U.S. as a Global Santa," said the Tribune; it also called the participants "lickspittle members." * U.S.-educated Jan Masaryk spoke the word peace in several tongues: paix (French), paz (Spanish), pace (Italian), bćke (Hungarian), vrede (Dutch), baris (Turkish), mir (Czech) and ping (Chinese). † A misquotation from Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address. Lincoln, less conscious than Byrnes of "power," said: "With firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right...
...auction to bid against 100-odd hotel men, restaurateurs, other buyers. In addition to the bronze doors ($1,025), he acquired ten bronze plaques ($975), a bronze railing ($155), a cloisonné enamel bas-relief of a Norman knight ($380), and a bronze statue ($690) entitled "La Paix" (Peace). Slightly remodeled, "La Paix" will be enshrined in the church's square tower...
Rene Lalique's highly specialized talent brought him exaggerated fame on two continents. Even the highroad between Fifth Avenue and the rue de la Paix was Lalique-paved, in part: his most triumphant commission was the decoration of the S.S. Normandie's main dining room...
...Cambon, in front of the Chanel perfume shop, a double queue stretched half a block long. Forty fighting men, some with the mud of Germany still on their boots, pushed into a jewelry shop in the Rue Saint Honore. A perfume shop in the Rue de la Paix was closed at noon; two days' rations had been cleaned...