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...Japanese war criminals, clutching ribboned copies of their indictment, shuffled into court like schoolboys carrying their primers to class. In the shadow of reckoning and doom, they giggled and gossiped. In the role created by Robert Jackson, U.S. Chief Prosecutor Joseph B. Keenan was pushing a sober trial of "crimes against peace" and "crimes against humanity." But Prosecutor Kee nan (who looks like W. C. Fields) had to deal with the opéra bouffe element which the West so often finds in the Japanese character. The chief Jap defendant, Hideki Tojo, picked his nose unconcernedly and flirted with...
Farago's first issue featured sober articles on U.N.'s Military Staff Committee, the plans to broaden Britain's traditionally upper-crust Foreign Office, and Russia's efforts to dominate civil aviation in Eastern Europe. But Corps Diplomatique still seems most at home in its social column, "Embassy Row," served up with heady whiffs of the old monde élégant: "The other day we met Baroness van Boetzelaer in what Milton called the best company: alone. . . . Emerson's wisdom that art teaches us manners and abolishes haste attains its perfect example...
They were soon to learn that University officials had no intention of granting the request, or of judging the merits of the case. After preliminary tactics of passing the buck, a campaign of false issues was begun. One sober member of the University charged that there would be defecation in the gateway by townies if it were left open. He argued everything except why this gate of the many gates in the Yard should be locked at night. Finally a milk sop was thrown to the students by extending the hour of closing to eleven...
...liquor situation was tight too, but a nearby Greek doctor could be counted on to produce his own passable, if unique, make of gin. Generally the atmosphere at the hostel was sober enough. A few correspondents even brought their wives and children. One day all dispatches from China were held up for hours by the birth of a baby...
...Spain is a menace we [will support] everything we can do under the Charter." Even sober-sided Andrei Gromyko grinned. By the time Hodgson was through, the Australian delegate had enough votes to back the principle of a Council subcommittee investigation to decide whether Spanish Fascism is a domes tic matter or a threat to world peace...