Word: george
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...periodically since it was set up by the Treaty of Paris in 1856, to discuss navigation maintenance on the lower part of the internationalized river. But what made last week's meeting remarkable was its atmosphere of mysterious amity. Opening the sessions, its German chairman, Dr. Georg Martius, warmly clasped hands with not only Italian and Rumanian representatives, but also British and French. The cheerful group then shut themselves behind locked doors, and talked their problems over. When they came out, they handed reporters a communique all about their "spirit of reciprocal understanding and cooperation"-but not a word...
...Arts one of the world's great repositories of Oriental art, given it distinction in many another field. But no benefactor happened to hit on medieval art. Last spring the museum drew polite attention to this deficiency by adding to its staff white-haired, pink-cheeked, enthusiastic Dr. Georg Swarzenski, Nazi refugee and a top-notch authority on the Middle Ages. Last week Bostonians who floundered through Fenway snowdrifts to the museum found there the finest loan exhibition of medieval art ever assembled...