Word: britishism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Alas for the Great White Goof [the Senate Office Building fiasco, May 25]. We Britons are acutely aware of our awful blunders of inefficiency, such as the Preston Motorway and British Railways, and I have for quite a time used examples of American efficiency to great effect in grammar-school debates. This powerful and humiliating weapon is now useless. You Americans are fatheads...
None of this made a summit seem worthwhile, but neither did it seem to diminish its inevitability. The British, whose avowed policy is to "keep the Russians talking," continued to argue that they must convince their people that the government is doing everything short of appeasement to find an alternative to the nuclear race. Rocket Rattler Khrushchev insisted: "If no agreement is reached at the Geneva conference, agreements will undoubtedly be reached at a summit conference...
...Geneva there was consternation-and something at last to talk about. Bitterly, Selwyn Lloyd commented that the story could not fail to have a "bad effect on the British delegation's standing with other delegations." In London Laborite Nye Bevan wryly remarked that if Labor had said such a thing, "we should have been accused of unpatriotically stabbing the Foreign Secretary in the back in the course of international negotiations...
...Times story made headlines and talk the world over among those who assume (erroneously) that the Times is the unofficial mouthpiece of British governments, as it had been, to its subsequent shame, in the days of Munich. To make matters worse, the Lloyd story had a certain plausibility. Once hailed as one of the Tory Party's coming stars ("a young man who never puts a foot wrong"), plump, pedestrian Selwyn Lloyd, 54, was all but ruined politically by being Foreign Secretary at the time of the Suez invasion, and by his disingenuous attempts to justify Suez afterward...
...their efforts, the English are likely to win no more than four of the 15 events. Only first places count in the meet, as has been the practice since the series began in 1899. The British have won nine meets against seven for the Americans and there has been...