Word: britishism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soldiers fight best under the French flag," De Gaulle also opposes the present concept of "integrated" NATO forces, prefers a World War II-style "cooperative alliance," and asks what would become of Western European nations without nuclear weapons if the day came when it did not serve U.S. and British interests to use the nuclear deterrent in local defense of Europe...
...Gaulle's complaint goes deeper: his aides carefully reminded foreign newsmen last week that the general has not yet received a satisfactory answer to the private letters (TIME, Nov. 10) in which he urged Eisenhower and British Prime Minister Macmillan to admit France alongside Britain and the U.S. in a tripartite NATO "political directorate." It is an old French grievance that the U.S. grants full international partnership to Britain, yet treats France as a junior member of the firm, on a par with West Germany or Italy. Fact is, insists De Gaulle, that France, unlike the Germans or Italians...
Washington's answer is that 1) there is no special U.S.-British partnership, and 2) France cannot get into it. It hopes not to antagonize De Gaulle but to counter his demands with sweetly reasonable explanations of the impossibility of complying with them. Those who dealt with the general in World War II know that such tactics have never before persuaded De Gaulle to abandon what he considers legitimate national goals...
...reflects tenderness and joy." Not since Britain's Queen Elizabeth graced the country two years ago had Portugal so eagerly awaited a guest. And Britain, too, had high hopes for Princess Margaret's "private visit" to England's "oldest ally": her appearance at the Federation of British Industries' $3,000,000 fair in Lisbon might do much to woo Portuguese trade away from the Germans. But by the time Margaret's visit ended last week, there was little joy or tenderness left in Lisbon. "Everything the British embassy has done," snorted 0 Século...
...fact, one of the worst fiascoes in the annals of royal touring, and it began the very moment Princess Margaret alighted from her plane at the airport. There, the lively Portuguese-gate crashers, airport mechanics and charwomen as well as invited guests -crowded around Margaret in a most un-British manner. According to London's Sunday Express, Margaret was MOBBED IN AIRPORT BATTLE, while a "grim-faced" Ambassador Sir Charles Stirling looked helplessly on. From then on, the British embassy and Portugal's Police Inspector José Passo were determined that the princess and the Portuguese should never...