Word: britishly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...certainly is no excuse for American behavior at My Lai. It is also small comfort to the U.S. that other Western nations have been guilty of wartime atrocities. The French executed some 15,000 Moslems in the long Algerian war of the 1950s. At Amritsar in India's Punjab, British Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer marched 50 of his soldiers toward a menacing mob of Indians in 1919 and, without warning, they killed 379 people with rifle fire. The Germans bombed and machine-gunned to death 1,600 people of the tiny town of Guernica, Spain, in 1937, rounded...
...Though British membership in the Market is probably two or three years off at least, British leaders are already promoting this point of view. John Davies, outgoing director general of the Confederation of British Industry -whose U.S. equivalent is the National Association of Manufacturers-summed up the feeling recently in a farewell speech to his members. "The postwar history of our relationship with continental Europe," said Davies, directing his remarks across the Channel as well, "is one of missed opportunities, and not only on our side. The longer we postpone trying to develop as a continent rather than...
...state of disarray will not be at the huge oval table. Charles de Gaulle saw the EEC as little more than an expediter of French policies and was determined to keep it thoroughly subservient to the six governments that brought it into being. On two occasions De Gaulle vetoed British membership. During one seven-month period, he ordered his ministers to boycott all meetings of the Six to demonstrate his displeasure over what he considered supranational power plays by the EEC Commission. De Gaulle became a symbol of obstinacy, but he also provided a convenient screen for the other members...
...British press showed more initial interest in the massacre story than the U.S. press. So did British politicians. But while some of them used it to attack the U.S. and its involvement in Viet Nam, one left-wing Labor member allowed that it was "to its great credit" that the story was revealed "in the American press in the first place." He was perhaps too kind...
Concord's Common has a commemorative obelisk. We passed through town to a national park at the site of the old North Bridge. Before you get to the bridge a monument tells you that this was the site of the first armed resistance to the British. Across the bridge a path leads up to an impeccably manicured garden and a visitors' center...