Word: britishism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rebellion there; in Johannesburg, when you published your famous article about the dangers of living in that city; and in Kenya, during the Mau Mau emergency-I canceled my subscription and became one of your critics. As an Englishman, I felt that your reporting was a disservice to the British Commonwealth and the free world in general...
...British Commonwealth," said Lord Hailsham, deputy leader of the House of Lords, "is hopeless to define." In its cover story on Queen Elizabeth II (June 29), TIME tackled the job of definition. Last week the British government had ordered 9,000 copies to send out to increase understanding of the Commonwealth...
...Seek amendment in Congress of the U.S. Atomic Energy Act to permit British and French control of small tactical nuclear weapons, including missile warheads; the project will be brought up before President Eisenhower and the National Security Council shortly...
...Germany. Reason: the French government would not let the U.S. ship the fighter-bombers' nuclear weapons into France unless the "nucs" were put under French control. A few days later, the F-100s began roaring off their bases at Toul, Etain and Chaumont, landed in new quarters at British and German alternate bases hard by the nuclear weapons, a combination that made NATO strength for the Berlin crisis that much solider...
Said Gore: The public announcements of the U.S., British and Soviet test-ban negotiators had led people in the U.S. and around the world to suppose that a lot of progress had been made. In fact, there had been no meaningful progress and no real Soviet concessions on the tough issues: the nature, methods and control of an inspection system. Meanwhile, argued Gore, the Soviet Union had made propaganda profits out of the conference by advertising the mere preliminaries of a test-ban agreement as substantial Soviet concessions. The U.S., said Gore, should 1) adopt firm, realistic goals...