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Chen is not a man with his eyes shut running rapidly backward to 500 B.C. He reads, and admires, philosophers of change, especially Henri Bergson. But Chen insists that since billions of Chinese people have carried on the world's most stable society on Confucian principles, those principles must be reapplied, not abandoned. Confucius said: "A river, like truth, flows forever and will have no end." Chen does not want the continuity of Chinese society submerged under Western ideas of individualism or materialism...
...years, at 3¼% interest, plus 1% commission (on the outstanding part) which the Bank collects to build up a special reserve. The negotiations, which took only six weeks, were conducted for the Bank by smiling, solid John J. McCloy, its president, and for France by Ambassador Henri Bonnet and Wilfrid Baumgartner, President of Credit National-France...
Next day a clipped English voice that has persuasively argued in many Jerusalem courtrooms replied: "With the future of our children in doubt, with our national patrimony in danger, we [Palestinian Arabs] come to you ... in the full assurance that your conscience will support us." Dark, dapper Henri Cattan, speaking for the Arab Higher Committee for Palestine, was telling U.N. what the Arabs expect of them: immediate stopping of all Jewish immigration into Palestine, setting up of an independent state in which Arabs would have a majority...
India's loquacious, figure-fumbling Asaf Ali had the greatest number of questions to ask Zionist and Arab spokesmen. He turned to Henri Cattan, and asked (as if he knew): "Do you realize that in the Dead Sea there are $3,000,000,000,000 worth of minerals?" Cracked the committee chairman, Canada's witty, brisk Lester Pearson: "Gentlemen, I think our work is over. . . . We have found [indicating Asaf Ali] our special committee of inquiry...
...away in Africa (see below), and his standin, good, grey Edouard Herriot, was abed in Lyons with acute phlebitis. In the absence of Auriol or Herriot, the First Vice President of the Assembly, Communist Jacques Duclos, would be interim President of the Republic. Panicky M.R.P. Minister of Justice Pierre-Henri Teitgen sent a special plane to bring Herriot to Paris on a stretcher...