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Before the year was out, however, the Russian flood was contained. On the dam that held it many men had labored- Bevin and Bidault, General Lucius Clay in Germany, Mark Clark in Austria, The Netherlands' Eelco van Kleffens and Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak in U.N., Mac-Arthur in Japan, Chiang Kai-shek in China, and, eminently, Senator Arthur Vandenberg in the U.S. But the dam's chief builder was James F. Byrnes of Spartanburg, S.C., who became the firm and patient voice of the U.S. in the councils of the world...
Roberts' fans are most likely to enjoy the Haitian chapters, many of which bubble with the heat and smell of the country, the tragicomic chaos of the days of Toussaint, Henri Christophe and Dessalines. Lydia's standout character: King Dick, giant, uninhibited Sudanese ex-slave who figured in Author Roberts' The Lively Lady and who swaggers happily around Haiti with pearls as big as birds' eggs, a harem of doting wives and a 5-ft. bamboo shillelagh. Lydia Bailey is the stuff that sells, but doesn't survive...
...Europe's finest fantasists, sold almost as fast as he could paint them. Last week the first full-dress U.S. exhibition of his buff-bare ladies was on display at a Manhattan gallery, sponsored by well-clothed U.N. General Assembly President (and Belgian Foreign Minister) Paul-Henri Spaak. By careful culling, the show bared no pubic hairs, was guaranteed not to rouse the same censorship problems that harried Delvaux's recently imported painting, Temptation of St. Anthony (TIME, Sept...
...there any objection?" asked Assembly President Paul-Henri Spaak of Belgium...
Last week Henri Laurent, a hardware clerk on Paris' fusty southern edge, unburdened his mind. "Voyez vous," said Laurent, "for five long years I stood here and watched the Boche walking arrogantly around my quarter. In those days I never thought I could ever again have a surfeit of democracy. To get out of bed on Sunday morning and walk to the polling booth does not seem a very heavy price to pay for freedom, but the French people are wearying of the process...