Word: britons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long view explains Anglo-Russian attempts to maintain cordial trade-union relations in spite of their failure to interest U.S. trade unionists. A new international federation of labor is in the cards for the postwar years. Sir Walter, like many another Briton and many a Russian official, hopes for a three-way arrangement at the base of such a federation. But he intends to insure at least a two-way understanding...
...precedent standing since 1858. At 60, the scion of a family of generals, the trooper who lost an eye at Ypres, who studied desert tactics under Lord Allenby and applied them triumphantly in the Cyrenaica campaign of 1941, the reader of Socrates, Shakespeare and Browning - this closemouthed, wry-humored Briton took over the Empire's most complex, burdensome political post and became ruler of 390,000,000 people...
...wine stocks are also depleted. Last week the auction of a late Mayfair hostess' cellar brought these smacking prices: German white wines, $240 per dozen bottles; four bottles of Cointreau, $136, and seven of orange Curagao, $160; Chateau Pichon-Longueville claret, $26 a bottle. A solid Briton knows his after-dinner ports as well as he knows Royal Navy battleships. But in the auction last week, nameless brands of port brought $88 a dozen...
...Randolph Churchill fortnight ago (TIME, March 29), Prime Minister Winston Churchill told the House of Commons it was permissible for soldiers on active service to express themselves in print. Last week, the London Evening Standard published a six-column Letter From A Soldier which pungently voiced many a Briton's opinion of talkative politicians...
...Souk-el-Spaatz the entire air command has become an interlacing of U.S. warp and British woof. For every staff office held by a Briton, an American occupies an opposite number. Tedder calls Spaatz "Tooey"; Spaatz calls Tedder "Arthur." It is Arthur who occasionally in the evening plays U.S. tunes on the piano. Tooey, who is a guitar virtuoso, broods because he has no instrument with him. The French are scouring Algeria for one so Tooey can join...