Word: britishism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flown up from the Riviera. There were Field Marshals Montgomery and Alanbrooke, sharp critics of Ike's leadership, whom the President greeted no less warmly. In a wondrous who-sits-where session for the photographers, the President, much as he did in the old days, finally got the British generals where he wanted them (see cut). And at dinner, amid old reminiscences, old discords faded...
...climbed into the limousine to share Ike's first triumphal tour of London. And on television with his famous guest, Macmillan took advantage of the fact that Ike could do little other than nod politely as the Prime Minister dropped debonair references to his own visit with Khrushchev, British distaste for U.S. tariffs on woolen goods and a clutch of other matters likely to convince British voters that good old Harold was the man to support. In the Evening Standard next day, Randolph Churchill sourly commented: "It was a fascinating experience last night to see the Prime Minister...
Though Labor Party leaders doughtily tried to shrug it off, most British pundits agreed that Ike's visit had carried Macmillan to a new crest of popularity, and Macmillan himself pointedly went into a huddle with Tory Party leaders to discuss an early election. At week's end dates as early as Oct. 8 were being widely rumored in London...
High and dry on the sun-blasted northeastern horn of Africa hangs a backward, poverty-stricken strip of land inhabited by leopards, crocodiles and some 1,300,000 camel-and goat-herding nomads. Back in the19th century after the British, French and Italians helped themselves in imperial fashion to slices of the coast bordering Ethiopia, this desert patch was known as Italian Somaliland. In Mussolini's heyday it became a bridgehead for his conquest of Italian East Africa. Now after years of somnolence, it is back in the news-once again as a trouble spot. The Italians, who kept...
...East German Central Institute for Atomic Physics chose a new deputy director at a salary of $20,160 a year. German-born, British-trained, with unique experience in his field, he was the obvious man for the job: Communist Spy Klaus Emil Fuchs, 47, onetime head of the theoretical physics department at Britain's Harwell Atomic Energy Research Establishment, who slipped atom-bomb secrets to Russian agents, was caught and imprisoned in 1950. Released 2½ months ago, Fuchs flew to East Berlin, was made a citizen of East Germany almost as soon as the wheels hit the runway...