Word: britain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Verbose, bristling, heavy-footed with dialectical cliches, this document rejected all moves toward Western union, from last year's Brussels treaty to the looming North Atlantic alliance, as inspired by "warmongers," designed to "undermine" U.N. and "isolate" the U.S.S.R.: "The ruling circles of the United States and Great Britain have adopted an openly aggressive political course the final aim of which is to establish forcibly Anglo-American domination the world over...
...treaties provided for an 18 months' probation period, during which the Allied military missions in Budapest, Bucharest and Sofia were to watch, "in concert," the activities of the defeated nations. Last week, the probation period was up. The U.S. and Britain took the occasion to tell the world how the three Russian satellites respected their solemn obligations...
Spring breezes last week tore the clouds over Britain to shreds. The sun broke through, warming the crocuses in Regent's Park, lighting up the pink almond blossoms in the suburbs, and providing British journalists with a neat symbol. For Britons could bask in a good deal of good news. Austerity was thawing...
...week also brought a blow for Britons. Argentina, which supplies nearly a third of Britain's meat, had cut deliveries. This meant that Britain's meat ration, already thinner than a slice of boardinghouse beefsteak, would be cut by another...
Behind these ups & downs in Britain's daily existence were some hard facts of British economic life. They were summarized last week by Sir Stafford Cripps in his "Economy Survey for 1949." The news he had about Britain's great effort toward recovery was as good as anyone had a right to expect; some of it was better...