Word: britons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...event last week so affected history's turbulent stream that British miners and Italian bakers, Irish shamrock growers and Russian scientists might never live quite the same lives again. As one Briton put it: "We went to sleep in one world and woke up ... in another...
Died. Winston Churchill, 75, U.S. author (no kin to the famed Briton †) of once best-selling historical novels (Richard Carvel, The Crisis), to which he abruptly wrote an end in 1917 (he wrote one other book in 1940, The Uncharted Way, a tract on religious philosophy): in Winter Park...
...Sabbath night, inside the cordoned area, came a spectacular defiance of the British military. Terrorists besieged the heavily fortified local headquarters for Hippo, rained mortar and machine-gun fire from roofs and nearby windows on it for 75 minutes. When the smoke cleared, the British announced the toll: one Briton killed, four Jews killed, 15 wounded...
Others had. One outspoken Briton in Washington viewed with impatience the shock which followed London's note. He said: "You had your men in Greece. They have been sending you reports and figures. By now you should have made up your minds. When will you at last abandon your gabble about pulling British chestnuts out of the fire? To hell with the British. Forget the British. Can't you finally understand that this is your problem...
...almost been in British hands in Palestine, where there is a ?2,000 price on his head. Their Paris-to-Cairo plane made an unscheduled, hour-long stop at the Lydda airport, surrounded by British cops. Their names were on the flight list, their baggage plainly marked. But no Briton came near the plane as they sat inside...