Word: britain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Voted (31 to 0, with six abstentions) a budget for 1949 of $38,692,578, of which the U.S. will pay 39.89%, Britain 11.37%, Russia 6.34%, China and France 6% each...
...Impossible. Old Bill discovered that the British government had known this all along but was not intending to try his son's murderers. Using his life savings and the railroad pass he held as a retired railroad employee, he traveled all over Britain interviewing everyone he could find who had known his son. He wrote letters to China and the U.S., and even took a trip to Wisconsin to find Bridge House veterans. He besieged his local M.P. with evidence and demands that the government act. "It had proved impossible," War Secretary Shinwell told the House of Commons last...
...Bill went right on collecting more & more letters and affidavits. One day last summer he took the train to London and charged straight into Britain's Judge Advocate General's office. "I had no appointment," he recalls, "but they let me in. They were very nice to me, and they listened." Slowly and ponderously the machinery of justice began to roll, and last fortnight Torturers Kinoshita and Yoshida heard their sentences before a British court: life imprisonment for the former, twelve years for the latter...
...Francisco last week, X rays of the hand were getting more expert attention. Before a meeting of the Radiological Society of North America, Britain's Dr. James F. Brailsford reported that such pictures can help in the diagnosis of important body ailments...
...Chubby in build and cheery in face, Sir Edward likes human beings, and says it will be a terrible wrench to leave his closest colleagues in the British Civil Service [since 1939, he has been Secretary of Britain's Department of Scientific and Industrial Research]. If he's climbed to any eminence at all, it's been on their shoulders. Although he looks forward to resuming academic life, he's found his ten years in civil service a great adventure, which he wouldn't have missed for anything! Always takes life at great pace...