Word: british
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cover: Detail from an oil painting by Thomas Edgar Stephens that hangs in the Cabinet Room of the White House. The British-born painter who scorned showing his works in exhibitions or galleries died in 1966 at the age of 80. He was proudest of two accomplishments in his life: he was the man who convinced President Dwight Eisenhower to take up painting, and he himself painted the last portrait from life of Sir Winston Churchill as Prime Minister. Other Stephens portraits now hang in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, in the Harry S Truman Library in Independence...
...than any other commander of his time save George Marshall, Ike understood what is most important in modern warfare: organization and coordination. He was, as Winston Churchill noted, a great "creative, constructive and combining genius." It is doubtful that anyone else, again save Marshall, could have melded the competitive British and American forces?not to mention the Canadians, Free French, Poles, Czechs, Dutch and assorted others?into so formidable a fighting machine...
Cats by the Tail. Why did Ayub step down? The President sounded particularly bitter toward his political opponents, whom he blamed for bringing on the nation's paralysis. He had halfway acceded to their demands by agreeing to make way for a British-style parliamentary government to be elected by universal suffrage around the turn of the year. Having won that much, both East and West Pakistani politicians, though still as divided among themselves as when Ayub once dismissed them as "five cats tied by their tails," were emboldened to press on. Not wanting to wait for the promised...
This unlikely unanimity of view was produced by the prospect of imminent Big Four talks at the U.N. on peace in the Middle East. Washington, encouraged by a series of bilateral discussions, had proposed that U.S., British, Soviet and French negotiators begin high-level meetings this week on the possibility of an agreement, and Washington's initiative had been welcomed in the other capitals. Both Paris and London, however, insisted that there was no thought of actually imposing a solution. "I do not think such a solution would work," said British Foreign Secretary Michael Stewart. "On the other hand...
Harold Wilson paid a four-day call on Nigeria last week, his R.A.F. VC-10 borne from London to Lagos on symbolic currents of hope that the British Prime Minister can somehow nudge one of the world's wars toward a negotiating table...