Word: britain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...power of de Gaulle in France and of similar political forces in other countries. The Truman administration may, with some justice, be characterized as a Liberal-Labor Government. As such its influence in western Europe will probably be thrown in directions favored by the Labor and Liberal Governments of Britain and the Scandinavian countries. This will, I think, greatly facilitate necessary cooperation among the countries of western Europe in an integrated recovery program...
...Times readers would prefer Britain's flyweight four-page dailies. But some of them-and some readers of other bulky U.S. papers-would certainly like the Times's air edition for U.N. delegates at Paris. It managed (by sharp editing and leaving out ads) to get all the news that's fit to print into 12 to 16 pages...
...themselves before continuing on their way. He wanted an international clientele at his Grand Hotel. Expatriate and exiled scholars have always been welcome at the Institute, but Oppenheimer had something different in mind: a continuous world traffic in ideas. For such foreign scholars as Denmark's Bohr and Britain's Dirac and Toynbee, Oppenheimer hoped to work out periodic repeat performances, so that they would never wholly lose touch either with the U.S. or with home base. Said Oppenheimer: "The best way to send information is to wrap it up in a person...
...novel by one of the most gifted and influential Christian writers England has produced this century. Now published in the U.S., the late Charles Williams' All Hallows' Eve (Pellegrini & Cudahy; $2.75) will soon be followed by other Williams books, and-if his effect on Britain is any indication-the almost certain growth of a small but fanatical group of Williams fans...
Divorced. By John Francis Osborne, 11th Duke of Leeds, 47, Britain's eleventh ranking duke: Irma Amelia Howard, 39, ex-ballet dancer; after 15 years of marriage, no children; in London. In 1947 the Duchess got a U.S. divorce, which Britain did not recognize, next day married her third husband, Manhattan Oil Consultant Frank Atherton Howard...