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Andrei A. Gromyko was the Russian bureaucrat, stern, stubborn, suspicious. The dark, youngish (38) ambassador spoke in a monotone, looking neither to right nor left, as though talking into space or lecturing, as he used to before a Russian class in economics. He talked in Russian; at previous conferences he used English. He repeated himself; twelve times he used the phrase "postpone consideration of the question until the loth of April." He evaded rather than answered questions...
Preaching & Parties. The man who evokes this sentimental, semantic medley of adoration and respect is a little (5 ft.) youngish (40) bespectacled, homely, eloquent son of a French naval officer. Before the war Sartre was a relatively unknown professor of philosophy (1930-43). During the war he spent nine months in a German war prison, then emerged to play an active role in the Resistance (he served with the Communist-dominated Front National). Now he is France's most discussed writer: his temple, the respectably bohemian Cafe de Flore on the Left Bank. There he spends most...
There is place-seeking, envy, dislike between individuals. Said Coventry's M.P., Maurice Adelman: "I would rather never have an office than indulge in some of the place-seeking that is going on." Labor's youngish "intellectuals" in the House would like to throw 74-year-old Lord Pethick-Lawrence out of the India Office, stubborn Jack Lawson out of the War Office. But these are inevitable trifles...
...encounters of officers who often disliked each other, by the day-to-day problems and incompatibilities of routine occupation business. Last fortnight, Berlin's Kommandatura met to transact some of that business. Facing each other across an oblong table in the large, high-windowed council room were youngish, earnest American Major General James Gavin; tall, leathery British Major General E. P. Nares; fattish French Major General Geoffrey de Beauchesne; and an able, hard-hitting Russian, Colonel General Alexander Gorbatov. Each had an interpreter at his side. Around the room sat some 30 experts and advisers. Major question...
...Labor Government's new, youngish Attorney General, Sir Hartley Shawcross, opened for the prosecution. In a grave, melodious voice Sir Hartley said: "Members of the jury, today, exactly six years after he entered into the employment of the German broadcasting corporation, William Joyce comes before you on what is the gravest crime...