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Presumably this was meant to imply that if the building had been more modern the League might never have foundered. Four arch-conservative architects had won the Geneva competition, pooled their resources to design the cumbersomely classic stone pile which was 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...
...machinery during the next five years of reconstruction. But neither their leaders nor the man on the Clapham omnibus, however much their nation needed the dollars, liked the terms on which it got them.. Those at the top did not want to face an uncertain free-trade future. Arch-Imperialist Robert Boothby had orated in the Commons debate: ". . . One mandate which His Majesty's Government never got from the people . . . was to sell the British Empire for a packet of [American] cigarets." The man in the street cared less for Empire than for a prideful feeling that Britain...
...looking forward to reading Remarque's new book, Arch of Triumph, but I don't suppose I shall like it, because it is indignant. Everyone's indignant about something nowadays...
Frida Laski, wife of arch-Socialist Harold, agreed with people who thought he ought to be out of the Labor Party chairmanship. Said she: "It's about time we had a happy home life free from politics." But she wanted him at least to run for re-election to the executive committee at next spring's Party Congress, for if he didn't "then Lord Beaverbrook would be very happy, and I don't want that to happen...
...Arch of Triumph is chiefly the love story of this sadly cynical surgeon and a bit of international flotsam named Joan Madou. It is also a story of the vicissitudes of the emigres and Ravic's murder of the Gestapo chief who had tortured him in Germany. The story of the emigres succeeds because of its tough, bold, unsentimental treatment of vast pathos. The story of Ravic's revenge succeeds because of Novelist Remarque's skill in presenting a cunning, brutal murder as an act of justice. The love story fails because Joan, an unpleasant character...