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...threats that this could bring their extinction; they also had agreed to miss no chance for practical discussion of practical roads to peace. They had worked no miracles, but none had been expected; their mood as they left Paris was well described by Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak, secretary general of NATO, as one of "cool determination" rather than "poorly founded exaltation." Along with other NATO leaders who sat around the table, Secretary General Spaak could find little resemblance between what went on in the conference room and what was shouted in the headlines of dispute and disintegration that...
...fast-running current of the great stream of history. Heroic efforts will be needed to steer the world toward true peace. This is a high endeavor. But it is one which the free nations of the world can accomplish." When he had finished, NATO Secretary-General Paul-Henri Spaak and Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan turned to him with quick, wide smiles of congratulation...
Only on the first day of the meeting did Ike show any inclination to husband his energy. When the second of the day's two conference sessions ran past 8 o'clock, he begged off attending a black-tie dinner given by NATO Secretary-General Paul-Henri Spaak. Rumors that the President was ill promptly swept through the press corps. Grinned Ike: "Tell those gentlemen I am a 9:30 or 10 o'clock boy tonight...
...happy indeed" over what he interpreted as assurances that the Baghdad Pact countries, including Turkey, could count on increased military and economic assistance from the U.S. But neither in the talks with Ike nor in their subsequent luncheon with British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd and NATO's Paul-Henri Spaak did Menderes and Karamanlis come to grips with the Cyprus quarrel that has set their countries at daggers drawn, gravely damaged NATO's potential effectiveness in the eastern Mediterranean...
...three-man jury-Lloyd Goodrich of the Whitney Museum, Henri Dorra of the Corcoran, Alfred Frankfurter of Art News-made a refreshingly sober choice for prizes. Top honor and $2,000 went to Edward Hopper for a calm, direct and powerful water color done at Pacific Palisades, Calif. Charles Sheeler took second prize and $1,000 with an architectural construction called Two Against the White, also inspired by a trip to California. The international flavor of the competition was served when England's John Piper took third prize and $750 for an impressionistic backyard-scape called Nailsworth, Gloucestershire. Honorable...