Word: britishism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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FEBRUARY BABY? asked the News Chronicle, but all the palace would say was that the royal personage would be born some time "early next year." If a boy, the child would take precedence over Princess Anne, who will be nine this week, as next in line for the British throne after ten-year-old Prince Charles. Already, the British press was sorting favorite names-George, Albert, James or Andrew for a prince; Mary, Elizabeth, Victoria or Charlotte for a princess. WELL, WHAT LOVELY NEWS, glowed the Daily Sketch. DELIGHTED, MA'AM ! added the Daily Mail...
...What a Man!" When the news of the fall of France reached Soustelle in Mexico in 1940. he thought of joining the British or Canadians. The British consul told him that a French general had turned up in London. "I didn't know anything about him. He could have been, well, any kind of general." But Soustelle wired his support to Charles de Gaulle, and was summoned to London. There the young competition animal (he was then 28) recognized a man he regarded as fit to be his master. Years afterward an old Marxist friend, cornering Soustelle...
...skillfully elusive commander of the Greek Cypriot underground during four years of bloody strife with the British, Colonel George Grivas was content to let exiled Archbishop Makarios and Greece's Premier Constantine Karamanlis do the political talking. When peace came, the 61-year-old soldier returned to Athens for a hero's welcome, promotion to lieutenant general, a lifetime pension of $300 a month, and a well-earned rest. But it was not long before peace and quiet began to seem to the old soldier to be neglect. The only people who sought him out in his suburban...
...eventual distribution of technical skill and capital, plus a harmonization of economic policies. The "essence of integration," he stated, lies in "mixing, both economic and social." "Increased international responsibility" must insure free mobility of both goods and persons between the countries of Western Europe. Pen gave strong support to British participation in the economic venture, and hoped Great Britain would look more toward Europe in the future...
...people of Ceylon want neither Western capitalism nor Soviet communism, a Ceylonese official asserted at the forum. Victor Mahatantila stated that Ceylon follows a neutralist policy as it looks for the best possible way of life. Belonging to the British Commonwealth of Nations, however, brings specific advantages to Ceylon, Mahatantila felt...