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...first as Prime Minister-seemed highly necesary. Apathy, mistrust and confusion hung over the relations between the Allied powers. The happy agreements on generalities at Potsdam had been blown sky-high by the failure in London. The way to make a fresh start seemed to be through Anglo-American understanding...
There were other problems facing the President and the Prime Minister, and they seemed certain to come up for discussion. Washington dopesters hinted that there might soon be an Anglo-American agreement on Palestine, perhaps this week. And Mr. Attlee would unquestionably try to break the stalemate on the U.S. loan to Britain...
...ease their burning necks, ten members of the Anglo-American Correspondents Association decided to make a formal, Dutch-uncle protest to the Government. The idea came from Canadian-born Eric Downton of Reuters, president of the Association, who arrived in Moscow four months, ago, after wartime service as a lieutenant on a Canadian corvette on Atlantic convoy. Brooks Atkinson, an old censor fighter, helped polish the protest. Every member of the Association, including Anna Louise Strong, approved the unanimous protest, which was addressed and sent to Foreign Commissar Viacheslav M. Molotov. Excerpts...
...glossy pages of Harper's Bazaar, it caused a mild critical flurry. Now published in book form, Prater Violet is likely to draw as much critical attention as any other novel of the season. Even in a period of thriving fiction, Prater Violet would rate respect: with the Anglo-American novel at its lowest ebb in years, Prater Violet looks like a fresh, firm peach in a dish of waxed fruits...
...Paris, General Charles de Gaulle, more noted for courage than for prudence, declared that France was not worried about the Anglo-American monopoly on the atomic bomb. Smilingly he said: "We think we have plenty of time...