Word: britain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bevin v. Charlemagne. The French are rather tired of Britain's patent virtue and self-righteousness. Many Frenchmen accuse the British of playing their old game -trying to interfere, without being responsibly involved, in the Continent's destiny. Thinking Frenchmen understand Britain's hesitations. They realize that it is asking a lot of Britain to tie her recovering economy to France's, and to rate the defense of Strasbourg as important as the defense of Dover. Still, they believe that, in order to achieve European union, the British must take military and economic risks, i.e., gamble...
...statute for an International Ruhr Authority (TIME, Jan. 10), although it allayed French fears, had not brought peace to the humming Ruhr. Britain, France and the U.S. were still bickering over how many plants should be dismantled; plans for a three-zone merger (that is, for a merger of the French zone with Anglo-U.S. Bizonia) were stalled; and the Ruhr Germans themselves were making trouble. Some of the troublemakers were Communists, but some were non-Communists who considered themselves patriots...
...politicians withdrew. They knew that a Papagos government would be a military dictatorship, that the U.S. and Britain would disapprove. Lord Mountbatten, who was commanding a British cruiser squadron in the Mediterranean, went ashore and gave his cousin, King Paul, some family advice...
...ailing, and President of the Provisional Government of Israel, gave the world his life story (Trial and Error; Harper; $5). It was also the life story of Zionism. In & out of the action weaves a dramatic subplot: the ironic love story of Weizmann's devotion to Great Britain, which began with high-minded platonic exchanges and ended with bloody fighting in the desert, where (between them) the British and the Zionists had produced an infant state...
...cudgels again in 1935. "Jews are not going to Palestine," he cried to the Colonial Office, "to become in their ancient home 'Arabs of the Mosaic faith.' " To his old friend, Ormsby-Gore (the Colonial Secretary), he wrote that the Zionist policy of cooperation with Britain in Palestine had remained unilateral-"it was unrequited love." In 1939 the love affair came to a bitter end. The British government issued a White Paper which wiped out the Balfour Declaration and foreshadowed possible control of all of Palestine by the Arabs...