Word: spaak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Elected Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak as president...
Bubbling with happiness, Norwegian Labor's Lie joined Belgian Labor's Spaak and Australian Labor's Makin in UNO's high command. Lie called a press conference, waved his arms at the reporters, bellowed: UNO will be bigger, stronger, sounder than the League of Nations ever...
Spatting. While this hot fight was going on in the Security Council, the UNO Assembly had its wrangles too. Old-rose, well-upholstered Paul-Henri Spaak, the Assembly president, relaxed in his old-rose, well-upholstered chair on the blue-&-gold rostrum, sometimes made a note with a gigantic goose quill, quickly handled awkward situations. One spat came after Ambassador Gromyko had urged that the Communist-backed World Federation of Trade Unions (W.F.T.U.) be granted UNO representation. Peppery Premier Peter Fraser of New Zealand spoke up angrily: "Unless we get a resolution with which Mr. Gromyko agrees on every...
Behind the Soviet move was opposition to Belgium's chubby, tennis-playing Paul Henri Spaak, leading advocate of the Russian-feared project for a western bloc of European nations. He was Britain's candidate for the post...
President Spaak, looking like a bald, cosmic frog, took the chair. He guided UNO so well during the first three days that some suggested him for the prized post of Secretary General...