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...increased the size of the meetings, padded out the votes, added to the clamor. (Yugoslavia, for example, sounded more intransigent than the Kremlin on the subject of Trieste.) Russia, which had not liked the idea of a 21-nation conference in the first place, had used it as a rostrum from which to warn the world against Anglo-U.S. domination, and to accuse the U.S. of profiting at the expense of war-torn Europe. But if temperamental optimists had been disappointed in Paris to date, Jimmy Byrnes's insistence that the small nations be called in had accomplished...
...olive-skinned Ferhat Abbas, Algerian autonomist, mounted the speaker's rostrum, the atmosphere tensed. A rightist deputy growled: "What is that salaud doing here?" Flushed with anger, the Algerian answered that he was there to denounce the highly touted project of the new French union incorporated in the constitution as "codifying a new colonialism as dangerous as the colonialism of yesterday. The colonial policy of France was one of the principal sores of the Third Republic." An angry clamor broke out in the Chamber. Some rightist and center deputies stalked out in indignation. Others, including MRP President Maurice Schumann...
...High point of the congress: when U.S. Negro singer (and leftist) Paul Robeson finished singing Song of the Fatherland, Soviet General Kozlov was so moved that he rushed to the rostrum and planted a kiss on Robeson's cheek...
Lack of Ambiance. The conference's first week was hopeful but unexciting. Under the bored and stony stares of Charlemagne and Saint Louis in the Luxembourg Palace, orators and translators droned on verbosely, while temporary chairman Georges Bidault listened politely from the sun flooded rostrum. Prime Minister Attlee did crossword puzzles. Molotov suffered in silence, his hands folded in his lap. Some delegates slept. Even the Gobelin-hung bar was quiet. Americans favored champagne; in the absence of vodka, the Russians went in for cognac. But, sighed the bartender: "Il n'y a pas d'ambiance...
...pulses had spurted noticeably faster with each unbending Soviet demand at the Paris Conference. Voters who perhaps were not coming to love Britain more liked less the prospect of possible Russian autarchy in Europe. When Speaker Sam Rayburn left the rostrum to make his own personal plea for the loan, he spoke the thought which finally brought around many election-conscious Congressmen...