Word: britain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...candidacy for a seat on the Security Council, which came up for a vote before U.N.'s General Assembly last week. The U.S. backed Yugoslavia. Russia, dead set against the Titoist rebels, backed Czechoslovakia. The issue that bitterly divided the Eastern bloc also split the Western camp: Britain had chosen to back the Russian candidate...
Delegates were tight-lipped on how they had cast their ballots, but best guesses were that all the Dominions except Canada had joined Britain in voting for the Czechs, alongside Norway, Denmark, Argentina and at least three other Latin American countries...
...government's dollar-saving quota slapped on U.S. movies in 1947 (40% of the pictures shown in British theaters must be British made). He was also hit when Hollywood retaliated by refusing to show U.S. pictures on the same bill with British films. Since Rank owns 60% of Britain's theaters, he was under heavy government pressure to step up his picture-making activities...
...Changes Made. Poor Frances Trollope took a terrible beating from this nation of officers and gentlemen. Chomping their chaw-packed jaws and deluging her skirts with a running fire of mis-spits, they haw-hawed at the Royal Navy, punched King George in the snoot and tossed Britain (as Cincinnati tossed its garbage) out into the street. When Mrs. Trollope gently hinted at the "total and universal want of manners, both in males and females," she was either assured that the rudeness in question was a local "peculiarity" ("You know so little of America"), or she met the fierce retort...
...years of her life) and helped to recoup for herself and her five children (of whom Anthony Trollope was to become a far more famous author than his mother) the money lost in "Trollope's Folly." Her new readers of 1949 are likely to laugh, both at Britain's Trollope and Jackson's America. Like Mark Twain, they may even decide that of all books about the U.S. by visiting spitfires, they "like Dame Trollope best." Wrote Twain in one of the suppressed passages of his Life on the Mississippi...