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King Gustaf and Queen Louise of Sweden rose to their feet in Stockholm to honor five of this year's winners of the Nobel Prizes: The U.S.'s Fritz Lipmann, Britain's Hans Adolf Krebs (both for medicine), Germany's Hermann Staudinger (chemistry), The Netherlands' Fritz Zernike and Britain's Sir Winston Churchill (literature), who was represented by his wife, Lady Churchill. In Oslo, Norway, the U.S.'s General George Catlett Marshall received the Nobel Peace Prize. As he rose, some Communist hecklers jeered, catcalled and sent a sheaf of propaganda leaflets flying...
Last week Ho Chi Minh, IndoChina's Red leader, in a roundabout reply to questions from Stockholm's liberal Expresses, announced scornfully that if France, "having learned the lessons of these years of war, wishes to have an armistice, [we] will be ready to meet the French proposal." The conditions? Said Ho: "The French government has to stop hostilities." In Paris, one Cabinet minister remarked that Ho's terms should not be considered, and was sharply rebuked by Premier Laniel's office. The proposal, said the chairman of the Assembly's Foreign Affairs Committee, should...
Some neutral Swedes were made a little nervous by the award. "Even if Caesar happens to sing," said the Socialist government's newspaper, the Stockholm Mor-gon-Tidningen, "he can never become an Orpheus . . . The academy move paves the way for the statesman, warrior, philosopher and poet, Mao Tse-tung in Peking, to receive the next year's prize." The Liberal Aftonbladet, however, thought the award might "well have been made much earlier." The Communist Ny Dag sneered: "This is a clear case of sidetracking Eisenhower . . . They say he, too, has written a book." But Sir Winston...
Died. Hjalmar Hammarskjold, 91, statesman-father of the United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold; in Stockholm. As Sweden's Premier during World War I, he shaped his country's traditional neutrality policy, and later, as chairman of the multimillion-dollar foundation (1929-47), annually presided over the awarding of Nobel Prizes...