Word: britain
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Father Acheson was a Scots-Ulstbiuian who lit out from Britain to Canada in 1881. He fought with the Queen's Own Rifles in the Indian Rebellion, then went into the Anglican ministry. After serving as curate of St. George's Church in New York, he settled down in the rectory in Middletown. He had married Eleanor Gertrude Gooderham (pronounced Good-rum), of the Gooderham & Worts distillers' clan; Gooderham money built a 16-room brick house on elmlined Broad Street in which the Achesons lived, and Mother was a social arbiter. But Father ran the family...
Advocate & Executor. But he remained loyal to Roosevelt. Acheson was one of the torchbearers in the 1940 campaign to put U.S. aid squarely behind Britain and France. He and three lawyer colleagues had written and made public a lawyer's brief supporting Roosevelt's right to swap the 50 U.S. destroyers for British bases in the Western Hemisphere. At the urging of Cordell Hull, Roosevelt invited Acheson back into his family as Assistant Secretary of State. Acheson gave up his law practice to take the $9,000-a-year...
Replied Bill Green: "All right, Senator. We know when a measure strikes at our heart and when it does not." Labor's opposition to Taft-Hartley, said Green, was "as uncompromising and rigid as was the opposition of our forefathers, the colonists, to Great Britain when it imposed upon them government without representation...
...most part, Britain's Labor government had been content to let Colonial Office veterans run the unliquidated portions of the empire. Whenever it tried to make socialists shoulder the white man's burden, something had gone wrong. Out under the never-setting sun, one of the socialist governors turned more blimpish than Colonel Blimp. Another took his socialist mission a bit too seriously. The latter was Oliver Ridsdale, Earl Baldwin, the socialist son of the late Stanley Baldwin...
Saved by Disloyalty. "It does seem to me," says Graham Greene in Why Do I Write? (just published in Britain by Percival Marshall), "that one privilege [the writer] can claim, in common perhaps with" his fellow human beings, but possibly with greater safety, is that of disloyalty ... I belong to a group, the Catholic Church, which would present me with grave problems as a writer if I were not saved by my disloyalty ... There are leaders of the Church who regard literature as a means to one end, edification. That end may be of the highest value, of far higher...