Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perhaps the most remarkable document in the annals of U.N. was submitted to the Assembly last week. It was part of a report by the U.N. Headquarters Commission on a permanent U.N. site, and was written by the French commission member, one of the world's most-touted architects, Le Corbusier.*The mind which produced the dictum-"An artist who paints a dog to look like a dog is himself a dog of the lowest kind"-came to several revolutionary conclusions about U.N.'s permanent home. Samples...
...Atomic Energy Commission had floundered in a deadlock between the U.S. desire for international inspection and the Soviet objection that such inspection would violate national sovereignty. The UNAEC has sidetracked political debate for technical fact-finding; the Scientific & Technical Committee at length surfaced with a report, unanimously agreed to by twelve nations, that control is technologically feasible. Whether control is politically acceptable the committee did not discuss...
...Nurnberg last week an official announcement explained-partly-how Hermann Goring had managed to cheat the gallows with a phial of potassium cyanide crushed in his mouth two hours before execution time. He had had the poison, the report said, on his person when captured, and had managed to keep it hidden during the whole 17 months of his captivity...
Goring, who was very fat when captured, had evidently first secreted the two-inch cylinder in his navel. As he grew leaner & leaner, his "umbilical cavity" (as the report called it) became unsatisfactory as a hiding place, and he began hiding the precious cylinder in his "alimentary tract" (meaning, doubtless, his rectum). In other words, the No. 2 Nazi used a stratagem known to run-of-the-courthouse detectives the world over...
...threatened with clubbed rifles any who protested. Ten foreign correspondents were whisked from the scene to the headquarters of a ruddy-faced, blond-mustached lieutenant colonel, who told them their presence was "embarrassing" to his men. The colonel called the Jews "'a despicable race," said (according to one report): "You know our boys sometimes use the butts of their rifles...