Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...patient, kindly voice, Sir Benegal said: "The events of the past two days have filled all of us with the gravest anxiety as to the near future. Many see in them the beginning of a third world war, with all its horrors." The crowded chamber was very still. Then Sir Benegal recognized Warren Austin...
Many Latin American governments responded to President Harry Truman's first statement on Korea by offering their cooperation. Argentina's Juan Peron rose to the occasion by calling on the Chamber of Deputies to complete the long-delayed ratification of the 1947 Rio Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance. The pact was swiftly approved...
...next afternoon there were 250 spectators waiting in the long, airconditioned Security Council chamber at Lake Success-men in sport shirts, starched wives of delegates. When India's delegate, Sir Benegal Rau, called the Council to order, Russia's seat at the Council table was conspicuously empty. The Soviet Union was still boycotting the U.N. for its refusal to unseat China's Nationalist delegates in favor of the Chinese Communists...
Cumberland Music Festival (Sat. 1:30 p.m., NBC). First of a new series of modern chamber music by Samuel Barber, Bela Bartok, Sergei Prokofiev, others...
...model of indelicacy, intimidation and _ revolting brutality," snapped Rio's leading conservative newrpaper Correio da Manhã. "A tremendous blow to the Good Neighbor-policy ... an unwarrinted set of interference," cried Colombia's Foreign Minister Evaristo Sourdis. While a crowded Chamber chorused "Muito bem-hear, hear," Brazilian Deputy Plinio Barreto boomed: "For reasons of demagoguery, electoral expediency or exhibitionism, Senator Gillette has roused an anti-Brazilian movement in the U.S." A Nicaraguan cartoonist drew Senator Gillette stripping Central America's coffee trees to their roots with a thin, blue blade...