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...very dissimilar groups-trade unionists and those they call "bloody intellectuals"-were becoming increasingly uneasy bedfellows. Grossman, one of the latter group, was still sounding off in the New Statesman, of which he is assistant editor. Said the latest issue (commenting on the U.S. coal strike): "For Britain and British labor the moral seems to be that to be entangled in the mess of America's economic confusion spells disaster just as surely as to accept American dictation in an international policy that may fluctuate as much as the shares on Wall Street...
...Rome spinsterish Kingsley Martin, Unitarian minister and editor of Britain's leftish New Statesman and Nation, talked about world Communism with a Catholic dignitary who saw a silver lining. Martin quoted the churchman: "If the leaders of Soviet Russia had been clever enough to respect individual rights and religious liberty in the countries they had occupied, Russia would today be by much the greatest power in the world. Perhaps we must thank le ban Dieu"-and he made a prayerful sign-"that He has not made them so intelligent...
...swarthy, sixtyish, learned Balliol-graduate Sir Maharaj Singh, one of India's principal delegates to the Assembly. Author, statesman and educator, Sir Maharaj taught himself ventriloquism some 30 years ago (to amuse his children). Last week, with all the exuberance that earned him an Oxford "half-blue" in featherweight boxing and made him a top Indian tennis "champion, Delegate Singh offered to show off his talent before a meeting of a trusteeship subcommittee. To help him he had a brand-new stooge named Uno, just purchased for $85 in Times Square...
Moscow-trained Viet Nam Leader Ho Chih-minh did not mourn for Thinh, the statesman, or for Thinh, the rich rice grower. Ho said acidly: "The loss of an excellent physician ... is regrettable." But warrior monk Thierry d'Argenlieu, French High Commissioner in Indo-China (who had been granted leave by the Vatican from his duties as head of French Carmelite monks to take a naval command in the first years of the war), knelt at a flag-and flower-draped coffin, solemnly kissed the cold forehead of Dr. Thinh. Said he: "In an Annamite country, it requires infinite...
...Another statesman making his mark in the musical arts was Trygve Lie. On the dance floor at a refined shindig for U.N. employes, the Secretary-General cut a lot of fine figure...