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Last week, Sir Oliver expressed a philosophy of a moderately hopeful sort in a New York speech before the Pilgrims, an old, famed Anglo-American friendship society. Said Sir Oliver of British-American relations...
...year ago the U.S., Britain and France agreed that Western German industry should be restored to about the 1936 level. Under this plan 682 plant units from the Anglo-American zones and 233 from the French zone were earmarked for dismantling. Meanwhile, in the U.S. Congress a feeling began to grow that plant removal was a wasteful business, that it might hinder the Marshall Plan and add to the U.S. taxpayer's burden. Hoffman wants to be able to tell Congress next year that waste has been minimized...
...Sellout!" Economic Cooperation Administrator Paul G. Hoffman had set up a $6,000,000 fund for U.S. technical advisers to EGA countries. Cripps summoned the National Production Advisory Council of Industry and proposed a joint Anglo-American Council of six labor men from Britain's Trades Union Congress, six manufacturers from the Federation of British Industries and six American industrial experts, including labor leaders. The NPACI agreed...
...fishing village of Katakalon, the night before, officers of the Greek (ex-British) destroyer Hastings had invited British officials and Anglo-American newsmen to an "Olympic torch party" in a restaurant. The party was gay. Lieut. Colonel John Casey, a pink-faced, ginger-mustached member of the British mission, was singing a Greek ballad, Mavra Matya (Black Eyes) when a burst of Communist machine-gun fire thudded into the building. One gendarme was killed trying to douse the lights; the others got down under the tables. Casey went on singing in the darkness to cover the departure of two Greeks...
...Appointed James Grover McDonald, 61, a member of the Anglo-American Commission of Inquiry on Palestine in 1946, to be the first U.S. diplomatic envoy to Israel. His title, pending full U.S. recognition of Israel: Special Representative...