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...Britain's philosophizing Bertrand Russell, after one of his end-of-the-world radio speeches about nuclear warfare last winter, came a glowing fan letter from French Physicist Jean Frédéric Joliot-Curie. Recalls Russell: "I was particularly appreciative of getting a letter from him because of the fact that he is a noted Communist. One of my principal purposes was ... to unite men of science." An idea popped into Russell's head: Why should not the leading scientists of East and West join in a statement that would warn the world about the disastrous...
...himself compromised, agreed to call the Polyvalents off businesses grossing less than 60 million francs, if the Assembly would postpone the debate on repeal of the tax evasion penalties. "Otherwise," he said, "you can find yourselves another government." Poujade-backing Assemblymen Max Brusset and Edouard Frédéric-Dupont agreed to withdraw their motions...
...prize catch of the Communist Peoples Congress for Peace. The others were such familiar faces as the Rev. Hewlett Johnson, Dean of Canterbury, Madame Sun Yatsen, Ilya Ehrenburg and Frédéric Joliot-Curie. But the congress needed a bigger new star than Sartre to revive public interest in its three-year-old slogans. Even a new Peace Dove by Picasso-soaring now, and plumper than the first one-and a street-sprinting exhibition by Czech Olympic Runner Emil Zatopek failed to draw crowds...
...instigation of another Communist stooge, France's Frédéric Joliot-Curie, Bonnard had set out to prove that the International Red Cross is actually a "tool of the western powers" and of "Swiss warmongers," is therefore unfit to investigate Red germ-warfare charges in Korea. Three weeks ago he was all set to take his "evidence" to the East Berlin World Peace Council when the Swiss Federal Police moved in at the Zurich airfield, grabbed his briefcase, and forwarded the contents to a court of inquiry. A government communique announced that Bonnard's papers contained...
...Paris, the World Peace Congress found a title ("The Partisans of Peace") and "elected" a permanent bureau, which comprised the men who have fronted for the peace movement in its various titles ever since. France's Frédéric Joliot-Curie, president of the Communists' World Federation of Scientific Workers, was president...