Word: britons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This was an extraordinary charge. No German doubts Hitler's intentions. No Briton doubts Churchill's intentions. But last week Americans-isolationists and interventionists alike-wallowed in doubt about Mr. Roosevelt's intentions. The isolationists liked it. Some of them began to figure they had won the argument after...
...least of all the average Briton, questions that a British victory in World War II would mean a very "new order" in the British Empire and quite possibly in the world. Herbert George Wells & Co., Clarence ("Union Now") Streit, Winston Churchill, Lord Halifax and the Anglican Church have all had their say about Britain's war and peace aims. Last week in London, when Britain's most apparent war aim was to keep from getting licked, another group spoke...
Jamie Brooke was a rich young Briton who bought a ship, stocked it with arms, and sailed for the East Indies as a privateer. One hundred years ago he set himself up as the white Raja of Sarawak, a wild, head-hunting State in northwest Borneo. A British court found evidence that Jamie Brooke had got his principality by violence and trickery, and that he thereafter practiced ruthless extortion on the natives. But he was acquitted, was knighted by Queen Victoria...
Since early this morning the German people are at war with the Belgrade Government of intrigue. We shall only lay down arms when this band of ruffians has been definitely and most emphatically eliminated, and when the last Briton has left this part of the European Continent, and when these misled people realize that they must thank Britain for this situation, they must thank England, the greatest warmonger of all time...
...week, however, the Metropolitan Police would have looked the other way if he had overturned his barrow in Piccadilly Circus. For John Thomas Cain was sporting one of the highest awards for gallantry that his country can give a civilian, the George Medal. He is, so far, the youngest Briton to wear...