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Certainly the outside world was none too friendly. Same day in London, the General Assembly condemned Franco's regime, barred Spain from UNO...
While Canada's UNO delegates planned for peace in London, Reconstruction Minister Clarence Decatur Howe made a cautious hedge in Ottawa. Against the possibility that Canada might be caught short again as she was in 1939 (when tank regiments went overseas minus tanks), he added what he called "a fourth service" to the armed forces. Its title: Canadian Arsenals...
Karl Marx, whose Das Kapital is the Bible of Communism, had visitors. To his grave in London's jampacked Highgate Cemetery came Andrei Vishinsky, at the head of Russia's UNO delegation, and deposited on the bearded prophet's plain stone slab a wreath of lilies and red carnations...
...finally finished in 1938-when there was no longer much use for it. But the "rightful winners," according to the Museum, were Frenchmen Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret, who had proposed a terraced glass-and-concrete palace in the strictest "functional" tradition. This time, urged the Museum, the UNO planners should "learn from Geneva and select an international jury of honest men, sensitive to the modern spirit in architecture...
Married. Carl Joachim Hambro, 60, well-to-do, Conservative president of Norway's Odelsting (Lower House of Parliament), onetime president of the League Assembly, now a UNO delegate; and Gyda Christensen, 73, Norse actress; he for the second time, she for the third; in Oslo...