Word: brit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...foreign policy. "Isolationists" wrongly believed that the U.S. needed no foreign policy. "Interventionists" were merely those who finally realized that the U.S. could not survive without Great Britain and therefore adopted Brit ish foreign policy...
...spacious but well-guarded grounds. The tactful British planted them several miles apart; Messe and Arnim had differed sharply on strategy and were not speaking during the final days. Both are entitled to the stand ards of equivalent British officers living in mess. Thus they will fare better than Brit ish civilians, also better than Rudolf Hess, who is not a prisoner but an interned enemy alien...
Weak Arches Cured. This queen of the current Russian Ballet was born, not in Russia, but in London, and her real name is Lillian Alicia Marks. Her father, Arthur Marks, was a globe-trotting Brit ish mining engineer who went to school in the U.S. and once worked on the Nile's great Aswan Dam. A serious-minded tot, Lillian would probably have embarked on a career in medicine but for the paradoxi cal fact that she had weak arches. To cor rect them she took up dancing at the age of nine. A year later...
...Amanda and Julian have but a single aim - to keep themselves on top. They are interested in making money, but more in the power that money gives. Even sex, when it is not a means to an end, is hardly more than a canapé. Good works - Bundles for Brit ain, aid to Finland, homes for children refugees - take a lot of time because the reward of generosity is favorable publicity. Thus life for Julian and Amanda is an intense jitter of methodical planning to do things which give them no real pleasure. Even their off-hours have...
...year pact which King of Kings Haile Selassie signed with the Brit ish Government bore little resemblance to Magna Charta. In return for $10,000,000 in cash, the Lion of Judah handed . the British a blank check. According to the agreement, British judges and assessors will sit on the benches of Ethiopian courts, the Ethiopian police force will be officered by Britons...