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...fact and its meaning were slow to sink in. It was as though Stettinius and Eden did not want to look at the skeleton which had invaded the feast. All next day they and Molotov labored away, in a kind of desperate friendliness, at changes in the Dumbarton Oaks draft of their world charter, but the skeleton would not be banished...
...Skeleton Stacks. We went on, and the great size of the establishment of Dachau began to open before us. Buildings and barracks spread on and on. Outside one building, half covered by a brown tarpaulin, was a stack about five feet high and about 20 feet wide of naked dead bodies, all of them emaciated. We went on around this building and came to the central crematory. The rooms here, in order, were: 1) the office where the living and the dead were passed through and where all their clothing was stripped from them; 2) the Brausebad (shower) room, where...
...massive steel skeleton had sprouted skyward, but war came and the steel was melted down into guns and shells. Last week, with the Germans well whipped, the Russians began building their palace in earnest...
...real shocker was a supine human skeleton, varnished with gleaming gilt paint, dazzlingly berobed and tenderly laid out to impersonate one Kuo Ch'in Wang, a Ch'ing Dynasty prince. After that, it was scarcely surprising to see a ghostly, frozen parade of the glittering imperial robes from the Ch'ing Dynasty courts, 1644 to 1911, which variously seemed to gesture in salute, prayer or mute ritualism. Also displayed were robes of Buddhist and Taoist priests, of devil dancers and court theater performers. So splendid were these vestments that the Metropolitan's Far Eastern Art Curator...
...Skeleton or Bloc? In Washington it was believed that Stalin would try to dissuade General de Gaulle from joining a European bloc, would urge that French interests will be fully safeguarded by the proposed international security organization of which France will be a full-fledged top member. But General de Gaulle could scarcely fail to point-out that though the skeleton of the international organization was set up at Dumbarton Oaks, some important points had to be settled before that organization could come to life...