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Jackson's associates in TIME-LIFE International are hoping that his experience with a Corgi motorbike, given him by its manufacturer, will not be too typical of forthcoming British-American trade relationships. Jackson took the 65-pound bike (a civilian model of that used by paratroops during the war) out for his first spin, skidded in some loose gravel, fractured his left foot. Rather, they like to dwell on the gift which Jackson received from another enthusiastic Britisher, the morning after his speech at the British Consumer Goods meeting - a case of Scotch whiskey (now selling...
Their arguments were effectively stymied by the Eli rejoinder that Russian expansion has been stopped in Greece and Iran without recourse to Anglo-American alliance, and that world security must depend upon world organization rather than the unilateral action of a British-American treaty...
Last winter he settled comfortably down into the job of Under Secretary of the Treasury, asked to be excused from serving as a member of the British-American commission on Palestine. Now Max Gardner may have to grapple with that problem...
Work on the new German constitution will occupy a major part of his time there, Friedrich said, but interzonal development, which he characterized as a "British-American joint enterprise," will also fall within his sphere...
While the war was on, no man in all Germany worried the Allies more. Last spring, British-American intelligence combat teams went into collapsing Germany to get him and find out what he knew about the development of atomic explosives. They caught him at Tailfingen, and spirited him away...