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Married. Dr. John Raleigh Mott, 88, elder statesman of Protestantism, Methodist layman, honorary president of the World Council of Churches and the World's Alliance of the Y.M.C.A., and a 1946 Nobel Peace Prizewinner; and Agnes Peter, 73, great-great-great granddaughter of Martha Custis Washington; he for the second time (his first wife, Leila White Mott, died last year), she for the first; in Georgetown...
...ministers failed to agree on a top-level, open-agenda meeting with the Russians, and the press generally interpreted this as a victory for the American view. London's anti-American New Statesman and Nation was particularly bitter in charging Acting British Foreign Secretary Lord Salisbury with "surrender" to the Americans...
...former Prime Minister can indulge himself by wondering out loud whether McCarthy or Eisenhower is the more powerful. The anti-American New Statesman & Nation finds in McCarthyism the thickest stick it ever brandished. Hardly anyone in Britain laughs when the New Statesman says: "The Hitler-McCarthy analogy is disturbingly apt." It goes on with a typical distortion of McCarthy's power, finding him in alliance with "powerful interests in contemporary America," including "a substantial part of American Roman Catholicism" and "many American industrialists." The New Statesman smugly concludes: "It is anti-Communism that binds these social forces together...
...Ambassador Athanase Politis called a square dance. Said an admiring guest: "He never saw a turkey or knew about straw, but he is one hell of a caller." Senator Estes Kefauver, onetime presidential candidate, boyishly hooked his arm around a tent pole and spun three complete turns. The Tennessee statesman, as usual, had a word to say. "Whee!" was the word. Speaker Joseph Martin grinned his friendly, lumpy grin. Senator Styles Bridges rang a locomotive bell and shouted "All aboard...
Poet Paul Claudel: "I believe that I shall have the strength to turn down the seductive prospect of cremation. The question reminds me of the story about a British statesman whose mother-in-law had died in Argentina. He received a cable asking what should be done with the body-'Bury her or cremate her?' He cabled back: 'Both. Take no chances...