Word: britons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Briton-in-the-street was as mad as a blitzed Briton, and Winston Churchill was in for more trouble the moment he got back from the U.S. The British remembered General Sir Claude Auchinleck's order of the day issued in the battle's first week: "Well done indeed, Eighth Army. Stick it. Hang on to him. Never leave him. . . . Give him no rest...
...names in the King's long Birthday List of honors last week. Some called it the most democratic Birthday List in Britain's history. All noted that rewards for loyal service to Great Britain had specially showered on those responsible for its waxing air power. Only one Briton was elevated to the peerage...
...Navy man. By blood and marriage, he is also related to many of Europe's royal families, including dethroned ones. His mother was Queen Victoria's granddaughter, Princess Victoria of Hesse. His father was Prince Louis Alexander of Battenberg, a German who became a naturalized Briton in 1868, served 51 years in the Royal Navy and was First Sea Lord when World War I began. The name of Battenberg was too much for warring Britons: late in 1914, just a year after 14-year-old Lord Louis had become a naval cadet, Prince Louis resigned from the Admiralty...
...ready for use. The Army already has airfields in Iceland, where U.S. Major General Charles Hartwell Bonesteel has taken over the command of all troops from Britain's Major General Henry Osborne Curtis. Last week General Curtis received the Distinguished Service Medal, first U.S. decoration awarded to a Briton in World...
...picked a good libretto, but no easy theme for an opera. Kipling's fable relates (in the famed Briton's most roll-down-to-Rio prose) how King Solomon's loving wife, Balkis the Most Beautiful, saved her lord from the vexatious quarreling of his 999 other wives. As Solomon strolls in his garden he overhears a butterfly & wife quarreling. The butterfly threatens that if he stamps his foot the palace and garden will vanish in a thunderclap. Solomon, amused, calls up his Djinns, enables the butterfly to make good his threat. In the end Solomon...