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...Government's position in the world today is symbolized by two men, Secretary of State James F. Byrnes and Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg, co-authors of the bipartisan foreign policy. Both will speak at the Institute. Against a background of informed but unofficial U.S. views and of foreign reaction to U.S. policy, Byrnes and his Republican colleague will conclude the sessions with restatements of what the U.S. is trying to accomplish in the United Nations, the Council of Foreign Ministers and other organizations devised to make or keep the peace...
Behind the discreet curtains of the cafes, crowds jam the tables drinking wine or coffee and eating little plates of grilled shrimp or fried baby octopus tentacles. Silent, grey-coated policemen stand discreetly in the background with little to do. Order is so perfect that Spaniards-against all their temperament-wait for the green light before they cross the streets...
...siege of Madrid by Franco's army foreshadowed the hell that all Europe was to suffer. Sooner or later, the rest of the world realized that Spain had been victimized, but it was slower in learning how Spain had got herself in for it. The purely Spanish background of the Civil War has never been aired enough, though Spanish historians like Salvador de Madariaga have insisted on its importance. One of the few books to put light on the background is this long autobiography by an exiled Spaniard. It is valuable because it reflects in great detail the peculiar...
...know if this young man is going to marry Princess Elizabeth nor do I care a damn. I might reply to the sentimental view that she ought to marry an Englishman and a 'commoner' by arguing that her background being what it is, the kind of commoner she would be most likely to marry is one of the Tory guard officers with whom she goes dancing, or possibly the son of some prominent Munichite or former Fascist. It might be different if the poor girl had not been so carefully sheltered from contact with ordinary working-class...
...surprise: Episcopal Layman Charles Phelps Taft, 49, son of William Howard Taft, 26th President of the U.S. (and Unitarian), brother of Republican Senator Robert A. Taft. A lawyer with a long record of service in public affairs, Charles Taft came to the Council presidency without the theological background characteristic of his 13 predecessors. Knowing delegates saw his election as presaging a new era of lay leadership and political activity for U.S. Protestantism. In his vigorous statement on taking office, Layman Taft left no doubt as to his policies. Said...