Word: britain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nation's 95 million eligible voters, only 50% went to the polls on Election Day. Comparable figures from elections abroad: Britain, 73%; Italy, 92%; France, over...
Forty Million Frenchmen. These were arrogant, offensive and injurious words. The point, however, was that Charles de Gaulle spoke for virtually 40 million Frenchmen. Not since the war had there been such a unanimous upsurge of French resentment-from extreme left to extreme right-against the U.S. and Britain...
Socialist Britain had its topsy-turvy aspect as well, and from there last week came a story of a London visitor who was inordinately impressed with the satiny polish given his shoes by a hotel boot boy. Next morning he arose especially early to catch the "boots" and congratulate him. "How did you ever learn to do it?" he asked. The boots drew himself to attention. "As a matter of fact," he replied in the clipped accents of an ex-Guards officer, "my batman taught...
...commentator Robert S. Allen declared in a mid-summer broadcast that the British Intelligence Service had murdered Polk because the latter was about to receive a Communist offer to make peace with the Government, and the report of such an offer would mean an end to American support of Britain's position in Greece...
...Guns. From the time the news of his impending birth had first been made public (TIME, March 15), a wave of sentiment, curling into sentimentality, had traveled across the English-speaking world. Early last week an impressionable housewife of Elizabeth, N.J. dreamed that Britain's Elizabeth had had a boy, and woke her husband and three children in the dead of night to tell them about it. When the news reached Australia, electric carillons pealed in Sydney and Melbourne. Next morning, in London, the bells of St. Paul's, Westminster and many another church rang out in clangorous...