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Equal honors must go to Britain's Hungarian-born Producer-Director Alexander Korda (knighted by George VI in 1942), who gives to the story that air of authenticity and apparent artlessness which has become a sort of hallmark of the best British pictures...
When King George VI banqueted the UNO delegates, no nation was excluded. But not even royal hospitality softened the Russians. All week Andrei Gromyko got up and made more forcibly than ever Russia's old point that the success of UNO rests wholly on Big Three unanimity (which to Russia generally means that the other two give in). This exclusive attitude was so conspicuous that a TIME correspondent asked one of the British diplomats who knows the Russians best...
...London's chill, dusty St. James's Palace, workmen labored last week cleaning windows and installing a special hot-water system. Here, on Jan. 9, King George VI, whose own state dining room in Buckingham Palace was still not redded up for peace, would entertain the chief delegates to UNO at a banquet...
...Canada's colonial subservience to the "old country" was all but gone. George VI was, theoretically, still King of Canada, and would remain so. But the ties that long bound the Dominion to Mother England's apron had frayed and snapped, one by one. Of the legal strings, only one remained: in civil lawsuits, Britain's Privy Council is still Canada's court of final appeal. And elimination of that last bond was already in process...
...first time since the Papacy's 14th-Century "Babylonian captivity" in France, Italians were in the minority. For the first time, every continent had a cardinal. The next Pope might well be non-Italian-which has not happened since the 1522 conclave chose short-reigned Hadrian VI of Utrecht...