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Poland, of course, sided with Russia. France's suavely soothing Henri Bonnet gave Russia some unexpected comfort by observing that it would be setting a possibly embarrassing precedent to deprive a small nation of her right to withdraw a complaint against a big nation. But his colleagues were in no mood for compromise...
...Henri Bonnet was the logical Frenchman. In an illogical world, the astute historian and ambassador moved warily and worriedly. He spoke with a Frenchman's concern for le mot juste, suggested compromises with a quiet desperation. In his suite at the Hotel Pierre he served his colleagues sherry and petits fours. At week's end, no one was more relieved than he that UNO still held the Big Three...
...Manhattan's concert season, far & away, has been Soprano Maggie Teyte. Last week she showed why. It was her last U.S. recital of the season, in Town Hall. One of the highest notes of the. program was an A flat in Henri Duparc's Phidylé. Redheaded, little (5-ft.) Maggie Teyte opened her mouth wide to sing it fortissimo but not even the faintest pianissimo came out. At the end of the piece, the audience bravoed noisily. Maggie Teyte seemed to feel that some of the applause was more kindly than genuine. She turned to her accompanist...
...Elected Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak as president...
Spatting. While this hot fight was going on in the Security Council, the UNO Assembly had its wrangles too. Old-rose, well-upholstered Paul-Henri Spaak, the Assembly president, relaxed in his old-rose, well-upholstered chair on the blue-&-gold rostrum, sometimes made a note with a gigantic goose quill, quickly handled awkward situations. One spat came after Ambassador Gromyko had urged that the Communist-backed World Federation of Trade Unions (W.F.T.U.) be granted UNO representation. Peppery Premier Peter Fraser of New Zealand spoke up angrily: "Unless we get a resolution with which Mr. Gromyko agrees on every...