Word: britain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ernest Reuter, the Lord Mayor of blockaded Berlin, came to Washington to attend the U.S. Conference of Mayors and was cordially greeted by Vice President Alben Barkley. Britain's wartime Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, stepped ashore from the Cunard liner Queen Elizabeth, looking pale and tired but still smoking a big cigar, and still eyeing the world with lively attention. He was picketed by left-wingers in Manhattan, but to most U.S. citizens he was still a brave and oaklike figure-the man who, in Fulton, Mo. on his last visit to the U.S., had called-dramatic attention...
...week's end another group of travelers was on its way to the U.S. Representatives of Britain, Belgium and Luxembourg-Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin, Premier Paul-Henri Spaak and Foreign Minister Joseph Bech-were heading west on the Queen Mary to sign the North Atlantic Treaty in Washington. France's Foreign Minister Robert Schuman was about to leave on the same mission. They would be here to endorse an affirmative act on which the U.S. people, except for a noisy minority, were no longer divided -an act of determination which was the best answer to the fulminations...
Ailing Ernest Bevin set off on the Queen Mary last week to be present in Washington at the solemn signing of the North Atlantic pact. Before he left Britain, speaking in the House of Commons, Bevin reviewed the position of the Western community in its struggle with world Communism. His incautious conclusion: in Western Europe, at least, the cold war has been...
Referring to the Atlantic Pact, Churchill went on to say that "no one could have brought about these immense changes in the policy of the United States, Great Britain, and Europe but for the astounding policy of the Russian Soviet Government...
...meeting was picketed by about 300 members of the "Citizens Action Committee for Peace." The demonstrators carried placards saying "No More Luce Talk," "No More Fulton Follies," and "Even Harry Wouldn't Come." They chanted "Churchill wants war, we want peace," and "Send that bundle back to Britain." Several of the participants were Harvard students. Other representatives came from the United Fur and Leather Workers (C.I.O.), and the New England Communist Party. A number of ministers were among the group, which was heavily guarded by police...