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These things are symptoms of indecision and weakness. So are Anglo-American differences over Italy and Greece and the recognition of one Polish Government by Britain and the U.S. and of another by Russia. The enemy is doing everything possible to exploit this indecision and weakness...
...weekly Cantachiaro (Chanticleer) has crowed impudently ever since liberation. It has no political ties, boasts that it is an "anti" periodical. Under youthful, clever Editor Franco Monicelli, it has flung satiric articles and slapstick cartoons at whomever and whatever it pleases, not stopping at the Italian Government and the Anglo-American masters...
...chief's office and locked myself up in there with them, removed my pistol and coat. In the bunch I had two rough gang leaders. They had attained leadership with their fists and could have torn me to pieces. One was of Mexican descent. The other was Anglo-American. Both were manly kids but plenty bad-and they hated each other...
Some commentators labeled the rebuke to Britain "rude," "tactless," "undiplomatic," "quarrelsome." But why had the statement been made? Behind it, obviously, was Anglo-American divergence on a basic question: what is democracy and how is it achieved? Both countries agree that democracy exists only when people in an orderly country have a free choice of parties and candidates. Britain asserted its right and duty to keep order in liberated countries until such a free choice could be freely exercised. Without apparently advancing any alternative, the U.S. condemned this as "outside influence." Britain's worry was that tightly-knit Communist...
...front, there was the most representative Anglo-American audience ever gathered under one roof in Britain. Impeccable Anthony Eden was there, and Mr. & Mrs. Clement Atlee. Viscount Camrose received in the royal box, along with Viscount Trenchard, president of the American & British Commonwealth Association. Viscount and Viscountess Simon came in, also Sir Andrew and Lady Cunningham, Sir Charles and Lady Portal, Sir Alan and Lady Brooke. The U.S. was represented by Ambassador John G. Winant, and its soldiery...