Word: brit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Plump, brilliant Geoffrey Crowther. editor of London's influential Economist, also edits Transatlantic on the side. Its purpose: to interpret Americans to Brit ons. In a recent issue of his monthly, Editor Crowther -appraised British and American attitudes toward each other in the dusk of Lend-Lease cancellation, Big Power troubles, hunger in Europe and plenty in America. What he had to say was still news last week in a U.S. playing host to Clement Attlee and negotiating a loan for Britain...
...sure if the circumstances were reversed and we or the Americans asked for similar access to the Russian arsenal, it would not be granted. ... I cannot myself feel the slightest anxiety as a Brit ish subject that these great powers are at the present moment in the hands of the United States. ... We should aid the United States to guard this weapon as a sacred trust for the maintenance of peace...
Molotov in London switched over to a demand that Russia get some Italian colony (Tripolitania or Eritrea) under a one-power trusteeship. The U.S. and Brit ain promptly plumped hard for joint trusteeships...
...Soviet Union and Japan was signed April 13, 1941 . . . Since that time the situation is entirely altered. Germany attacked the Soviet Union, and Japan, an ally of Ger many, helped the latter in her war against the U.S.S.R. Besides, Japan is fighting against the United States and Great Brit ain, who are allies of the Soviet Union...
Accountable "only to God" for its actions, the Broederbond has only 2,672 members after 26 years of existence. But all of them are handpicked, fanatical, British-hating Afrikaners. Most of them are professional people. Their slogan is "Weg met die Brit" (Down with the Briton). The Broederbond wants a strictly authoritarian republic run by a one-party Afrikaans Volksraad (People's Council), headed by an Afrikaner president. English would not be recognized as an official language nor would English-speaking South Africans be recognized as ware (true) Afrikaners...