Word: britain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Masochistic? Privately, but more & more loudly, leaders of many continental nations are blaming Britain for working against a unified Europe. They attribute this partly to its Labor government's love of planning, with the controls and restrictions that planning brings...
...everyone had expected, Andrei Vishinsky turned down the West's proposal for a Germany united on the basis of the Bonn constitution. He took two days and a lot of his beloved Russian proverbs to do it. Britain's Ernie Bevin grunted impatiently as Vishinsky hammered away: France's Robert Schuman fidgeted in his chair. But Dean Acheson, knowing that Vishinsky was talking-and had to talk-for the record, coolly waited till the Russian had run down. Then he submitted a proposal for settling the Berlin dispute...
...open ing skirmishes was fought last week when eight leading representatives of OEEC (Organization for European Economic Cooperation) met in Paris. The engagement was screened by a fog of long technical words and its result was inconclusive. When the meeting ended, however, the advantage lay with Britain's Sir Stafford Cripps. He had skillfully checked a drive by ECA and some continental nations to reduce currency exchange barriers between European nations...
Died. William Hulme Lever, second Viscount Leverhulme, 61: of an internal hemorrhage; in Minneapolis (while on a world tour). He was governing director (and son of the founder) of Britain's sprawling mercantile empire of Lever Bros. & Unilever Ltd. and its Dutch twin, Lever Bros. & Unilever N.V. (337 factories, 516 companies in 17 nation. with assets totaling $1.1 billion), among the world's leading* manufacturers of soap (Rinso, Lux, Lifebuoy), edible oils (Spry) and margarines...
Died. Patrick Bowes-Lyon, 15th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, 64, eldest brother of Britain's Queen Elizabeth; after long illness; in Glamis Castle (legendary site of Shakespeare's Macbeth'), Angus, Scotland...