Word: britain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...authority's council will have 15 votes-three each for the U.S., Britain, France, Germany, and one each for the three Benelux nations. Decision will be reached by majority vote, with no veto...
Professional Duty. As everyone had foreseen, there were loud cries of pain from Germans of all political shades. In Diisseldorf, Britain's military governor General Sir Brian Robertson slapped them down: "Stop complaining. Be thankful for what you have got. The Germans must understand that Germany's record has caused other countries to be nervous about her behavior in the future." The sanest German opinion was well expressed by a Berlin businessman: "Of course the politicians must cry out in anger-that is part of their professional duty. But we need a year before we can really tell...
...council's authority. His similes were not up to Andrei Vishinsky's high standards, but he did his best. Cried Malik: "The Dutch reply is a cynical request by an aggressor for two or three days more to kill off his victims completely . . . Do the U.S. and Britain intend, like Pontius Pilate, to wash their hands of the matter...
There were indeed some ablutionary gestures in the council. Britain, France and Belgium opposed any further action against The Netherlands for the present; the U.S. did not want to quarrel with its Western allies. The Dutch meanwhile announced that Prime Minister Willem Drees would personally go to Indonesia to settle the islands' future. The way things looked in Indonesia last week (see below), that was not impossible; but it would take some doing. India's Prime Minister Pandit Nehru last week called for a conference of 14 Asiatic and Middle Eastern nations to discuss ways & means of helping...
Probably nothing would have given greater shock to well-intentioned Donor Chantrey. He had left the bulk (?105,000) of his estate for "the purchase of works of fine art of the highest merit . . . executed within the shores of Great Britain." Chantrey's will specified that the president and council of the Royal Academy should be the judges of what to buy with the money. In 1897, the Academicians had picked the Tate as just the place for the collection...