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Ewan stayed on the canal that night, the next day and the next night. He was. wrapped in blankets and rubber sheeting. His voice turned hoarse.The police grinned but did not interfere. Crowds grew bigger & bigger. Ruth stayed on the dock, guarding a supply of apples and cigarettes, and watching Ewan's fitful slumbers...
Returned. Gerhart was docile as a dove as the tender reached for the dock, and he was polite and pleasant after being installed in Southampton jail. But the Polish embassy in Britain issued a statement for him: "I am the first prisoner of the North Atlantic pact, this unholy alliance of reaction . . . Down with the American gendarmes ... I am being kidnaped by the British authorities...
...problem then was still present. Shortly after Henry Johnston, chief greeter for the Athletic Association had shouted "We're off!" and had narrowly missed immersion leaving the dock, another conference was held on the launch. Mr. Alison Danzig, visiting steward from the New York Times Boating Club, spoke first...
...Ralph Bunche, the U.N.'s successful untangler of Arab-Jewish relations, arrived home in New York to be greeted at the dock by his wife and five-year-old Ralph Jr. Also on the welcoming detail: U.N. Secretary General Trygve Lie and some bored policemen, assigned to handle an anticipated crowd of admirers that never turned up. Later in the week, though, the American Association for the United Nations announced that it was giving Statesman Bunche a scroll for "distinguished service...
...defendants were bureaucrats and diplomats, the technicians of terror and the bookkeepers of tyranny. In the glare of the klieg lights, they looked almost pitiful. When grey-haired Baron Ernst von Weizsäcker was led into the dock, a U.S. colonel's wife in the gallery whispered: "Why, look at that nice...