Word: britain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Australia, Canada, China, France, Great Britain, India, The Netherlands, the Philippines, New Zealand, the U.S.S.R...
...gloomy, Gothic grandeur of Westminster Abbey, Britain's most hallowed shrine, Winston Churchill and Clement Attlee stepped up to a simple wrought-iron stand and drew back an American flag from a shallow niche beside the west door. They uncovered a three-foot-high marble tablet, crowned with an American eagle and inscribed...
...honored memory of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882-1945. A faithful friend of freedom and of Britain, four times President of the United States. Erected by the Government of the United Kingdom...
...tribute unique in British history, Franklin Roosevelt had become the first head of a foreign state whose name joined those of Britain's illustrious dead of seven centuries. * The tablet in the abbey is considered even more of a tribute than the statue of Roosevelt in Grosvenor Square visited by hundreds of Britons every...
Thus, exclaimed the usually businesslike Associated Press, as its clacking teletype machines began to carry the news around the world, "the fairy-tale drama of Britain's exciting weekend closed...