Word: britain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Telephone. That evening and through the next day Jessup waited for his reply. In other offices in Manhattan, France's Jean Chauvel and Britain's Alexander Cadogan also waited. At 6 p.m. on Tuesday, a little man named O. A. Tro-yanovsky, whose father had been the first Soviet ambassador appointed to the U.S., arrived at Jessup's office with Malik's reply...
...Berlin blockade ended yesterday. In another week and a half, the foreign ministers of the United States, France, Great Britain, and Russia, will meet in Paris "to consider questions relating to Germany." These two occasions could mean nothing, as far as the cold war is concerned, if there is no real meeting of East and West, if there is more wrangling and suspicion. Under those circumstances, the conference will break up, as have so many other conferences before it, and the battle for Germany will continue--only more bitterly than before...
...feel to be 70? Roared Britain's famed and sometimes fatuous conductor, Sir Thomas Beecham, over a transatlantic telephone to a U.S. newsman: "It doesn't feel like 70 at all, old boy. It doesn't feel like anything at all, and I'll feel like that at 75 and 80 and beyond. I'll go on conducting to the end of my days, which is a hell...
...year from Aramco in 1941, on the threat of tearing up its multi-billion-dollar concession in his country. Moffett claimed that he had persuaded Franklin D. Roosevelt to propose that Ibn Saud's sagging treasury be propped up with money from a $425 million U.S. loan to Britain...
...Britain's John Aubrey has been called "the little Boswell" of his day (1626-1697). But not even Boswell could claim quite the same historical importance as Chronicler Aubrey, the sensitive, observant man who saw himself as the connecting link between the great days of Queen Elizabeth and the riotous Restoration...