Word: britain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...State Department quietly prepared a momentous conference. Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Britain's Ernest Bevin and France's Robert Schuman prepared for a meeting in Washington next week to discuss Western policy in Germany...
...shoes (the soles are resourcefully cut from old Luftwaffe tires). But not forgotten is the event which Hamburg's people simply call "the catastrophe"-the week of concentrated Allied bombing, in the summer of 1943, which left the city with nearly as many dead as were killed in Britain by bombs and rockets during the entire war. Hamburg's great port is virtually paralyzed and many of Hamburg's sea captains have become trolley car conductors. Nearly 30,000 seamen drift from one odd job to another. Even the tough waterfront has lost its rowdy vitality...
...involving, at one time or another, Shakespeare's King Lear, Wilde's Salome and Gilbert & Sullivan's The Mikado-were taken for British playgoers by the Lord Chamberlain who, along with such ancient duties as escorting the king to & from the royal carriage, has acted as Britain's theatrical censor since 1737. Last week the House of Commons debated a bill to end the censor's long engagement...
...whole empire seemed agreed that Cromwell was the best horse. But on the eve last week of Britain's famed Grand National, the odds on Cromwell fluttered nervously. What worried horse-minded Britons was not Cromwell but his lordly jockey, 39-year-old Anthony Bingham ("Nitty") Mildmay, 2nd Baron Mildmay of Flete...
...London Daily Mail gave a penlashing to the Birmingham Photographic Society for exhibiting the photograph Following the Master (see cut), "despite protests from all over Britain." The Mail charged that "1) it offends the religious susceptibilities of Christian people . . .; 2) the way the saw is being operated conflicts with all the modern rules of safe carpentry; 3) there were no circular saws in New Testament days...