Word: britain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Princess Margaret took over the job of Commodore of Britain's Sea Rangers (the seagoing Girl Guides), a post her sister held a couple of years...
...opening night of a smash hit, de facto recognitions showered down on the new, muscle-flexing state of Israel. They came from France, the Benelux countries, Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland.* Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Iceland promised action soon. Most important of all, recognition was announced by Great Britain...
...Britain's balky, bumbling Foreign Secretary Bevin had been urged by the U.S. to grant recognition before the Israeli elections last week, in order to encourage the Israeli moderates against the extremists. But Bevin stubbornly refused to be hustled. As it turned out, the Israeli moderates did well anyway...
...Bevin really want agreement? It was hard to tell from his hesitation in the days preceding recognition of Israel by Britain. Winston Churchill, fresh and saucy after a vacation on the French Riviera, raked him with merciless verbal talons. Churchill spoke of "folly, fatuity and futility . . . the quintessence of maladresse" and compared Bevin to a cuttlefish which retires "under a cloud of inky water and vapor . . . to some obscure retreat...
Hideout. For two years-which police think he spent at a hideout in Philadelphia-Carr wrote for Communist papers in Britain and the U.S. When Russia had been in the war over a year, Carr gave himself up to the Mounties. After a ten-day internment he was released on his promise to stay out of Communist activities...