Word: britain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hoffman was calling for integration at a time when the split between controlled-economy Britain and the relatively free-economy Continent was wider than ever. The French and their continental friends were still fuming over the fact that the British had devalued the pound without even consulting them (TIME, Sept. 26 et seq.). They accused the U.S. of granting Britain the privileges of a specially favored nation, at the expense of Western Europe's unity. Hoffman tried to deflect some of this resentment. He was taking a crack at the British when he called upon the governments to give...
...dozen times in the last three months, representatives of the U.S., Britain, Canada, France and China met with the Russians behind closed doors at Lake Success; they were having another try at reaching agreement on international atomic control...
Spunky Little Man. Once a rather dowdy (though brilliant) history professor, Georges Bidault suddenly blossomed out after liberation as a dapper diplomat and statesman. Britain's Ernest Bevin had once patronizingly called him "this dear little man," but Bidault had been almost the only one in Charles de Gaulle's postliberation entourage with spunk enough to argue against the stiff-backed general. Son of a devoutly Catholic, well-to-do insurance broker, Georges Bidault had sided with the Spanish Loyalists, denounced Munich and become a top executive in the French underground. Before he married in 1945, he seemed...
...Harvard Debate Council won a unanimous decision from an MIT debating group last night in the Eliot Junior Common Room on the subject: Resolved, That the United States and Great Britain should join in an economic union...
Whyte, one of Britain's leading psychologists, had earlier submitted the Society a list of seven topics on which he was willing to speak, and the group chose "Where Marx and Freud were Wrong...