Word: britian
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...rose rapidly to become head of the external finance division of his ministry, but in 1943 he fled Vichy France and eventually joined De Gaulle in Algeria, where he became, in effect, the finance minister of the Free French. After serving on the Allied Consultative Council for Italy with Britian's Harold Macmillan and the U.S.'s Robert Murphy, Couve at war's end was made Ambassador to Rome. He subsequently held the same post in Egypt, NATO and the U.S., where Jacqueline Couve de Murville was admired for her elegance, and the family dachshund, Xenophon, became...
...Nassau, however, Britian showed that she was not European in this sense at all. Despite the abrupt abandonment of the Skybolt Program, which meant the end of at least semi-independence for the British, Macmillan once again leased the destiny of his country to the United States...
Like an umpire stricken with palsy, Mr. Ian Macleod, Britian's Colonial Secretary, sits fluttering in his chair in London as the conference on federal constitutional review for Rhodesia and Nyasaland only continues to reveal the intransigeance of both sides...
...East. Britian's Sir David Eccles, President of the Board of Trade, signed a five-year trade agreement in Moscow. Britain's purchases from the Soviet Union (chiefly timber, grain, furs) should now rise by a third over last year's $160 million, and may in time reach a level of 2½% of all British imports. Britain refused Moscow's request for long-term government credit, but expects to sell the Russians "very substantial" amounts of industrial equipment no longer on the West's strategic embargo list, including complete chemical, plastics and tire plants...
...squarely for many years to come. Last week's meeting does not in itself give promise that these problems will be met either wisely or honestly. But the long-overdue acceptance by the Americans of the idea of scientific cooperation points to a much closer working alliance with Great Britian...