Word: briton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tall, lean Briton was going about the country last week with the grave air of a scholar at a county fair. In Washington, the discussions on the North Atlantic alliance were about to resume. But before he settled down to that problem, Sir Oliver Franks, ambassador to the U.S. and onetime professor of moral philosophy, thought it important to make a good-will tour of the U.S. Midwest...
...common effort to keep humanity from rolling off the plateau over a precipice, said Sir Oliver: "You may rest secure that Britain will not fail you and in the back of the mind of every Briton there is firm and steadfast belief that you will not fail...
Hoffman found Bevin cool to a proposal to stop dismantling. The Briton argued 1) that it would violate treaties, thus weakening the West's case against Russia, and 2) many of the plants would be more useful in other countries than they would be in Germany. The first point could be argued endlessly; the second is a question of fact, to be investigated plant by plant...
...Open Up the World." Then the world's town meeting saw an awesome spectacle-a Briton in a rage. For almost a year Ernest Bevin's voice had been subdued; illness had weakened him, and the protracted Palestine struggle, in which he often found himself at odds with Washington, had embittered him. He has made some of the dreariest speeches in the 700-year history of the House of Commons. Last week, he was the old Ernie Bevin again, the great commoner who-when Russia first threatened to sink U.N. 2½ years ago-had lifted U.N. above...
...undergraduate boards that run the News had long yearned for a printing plant of their own. The cost was always too high. Since 1932, the editors have had their own Gothic quarters, the Briton Hadden Memorial Building,† but the printing has been done on contract, in a shop a mile and a half away. Now, in the "heelers' room," where young Yalemen compete for places on the board, the Daily News (circ. 3,000) has its own offset press and folder, with three new Vari-Typers down the hall. It can print more pictures and is boosting...