Word: britishism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some influential British civil servants now privately concede that Britain's postwar isolation from the Continent may have been a historic mistake in foreign policy. But dominant forces in both the Conservative and Labor parties seem reluctant to leave the safety of the three familiar circles. The old isolation speaks to something basic in British pride. The government's attitude toward Europe still seems to be to procrastinate and to improvise. Britons argue that Franco-German amity is unnatural, that a European movement without Britain is bound to fade once De Gaulle or Adenauer is gone, and that...
...some white settlers were alarmed at the impending release of hundreds of Mau Mau murderers, Harold Macmillan's new Colonial Secretary, bright, ambitious Iain Macleod, intends a bolder, more liberal approach to Britain's colonial problems in Africa. As one indication of the new trend in British colonial policy, Prime Minister Macmillan himself drove out to London Airport last week to welcome one of the most outspoken of new African leaders, President Sékou Touré of newly independent Guinea, on his way home after a visit to the U.S. That night Macmillan gave Tour...
...staff of clerks, is a kind of clearing house for economic relations between 15 "recipient" nations of Southeast Asia and six "donor" nations-the U.S., Britain Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Since the plan was started in Ceylon nine years ago, primarily as a mutual-aid forum of ten British Commonwealth nations, it has become the accepted regional headquarters for development plans affecting a quarter of the world's population. In that time $6 billion in foreign aid has been pledged to its member countries-nearly $5 billion of it from the U.S. About two-thirds...
...humiliating the bank's brass. His scheme: instead of swiping the bank's funds, he adds his own money to them, creates total bookkeeping chaos, and rapidly advances toward the presidency when he irons out the bugs. The show was directed too broadly, lacked the requisite British dryness, but in his subdued hilarity, Actor Guinness was perfect...
Have children forgotten how to entertain themselves? Last week British grownups got the lowdown from an exuberant piece of scholarship: the Oxford University Press's new Lore and Language of Schoolchildren* TV may seem to be taming the last of the world's savage tribes, report Authors lona and Peter Opie, but juvenile culture is indestructible...