D O C . 3 3 0 S TAT E M E N T F O R S H AW S B I R T H D AY 3 3 7 sees fit.[5] It is incredibly hot here and business is quite boring. However, yesterday the Indian committee member gave a very interesting private lecture about his physiological research.[6] Greetings to your friends and keep your chin up. Warm regards from your Albert Mileva patched the raincoat with the feeling of modest victory.[7] 330. Statement for George Bernard Shaw’s Seventieth Birthday[1] [Berlin?, before 26 July 1926][2] It is rare ¢are the² to find people who ¢remain² are independent enough to see the ¢crimes² weaknesses and follies of their contemporaries and remain themselves un- touched by them. However, most of these lonely few soon lose the courage to act in the spirit of bringing about healing once they have come to know human obsti- nacy. Only very few have the gift to fascinate their generation by means of subtle humor and grace, and to hold a mirror up to it through the impersonal means of art. Today, I greet with warm affection the greatest master of this sort, who has delighted and educated us all. 331. Report for the ICIC on the Question of the Establishment of an International Bureau of Meteorology [Curie, Lorentz, and Einstein 1926] Dated 26 July 1926 Published 25 August 1926 In: League of Nations. International Committee on Intellectual Co-operation. Minutes of the Eighth Session Held at Geneva from Monday, July 26th, to Thursday, July 29th, 1926. Geneva: League of Nations, 1926, pp. 57–59. [See documentary edition for English text.]
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