Word: britons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Every Briton loves a paradox. Last week the man whom many had begun to call the greatest Prime Minister Britain ever had-whom all conceded to be one of her profoundest initiates in the artifices of rhetoric-was the subject...
...they are not alone: four other Americans and one Briton similarly threatened have dug in their toes, strapped on guns, and called the Jap bluff...
...could imagine no more attractive a future for a young Briton than to serve the good people of Preston, gushed Son Churchill...
...hearty Briton was 55-year-old James Melville Cox, who liked the Japanese, spent 34 years in the Far East as a correspondent for Britain's Reuters News Agency. When Jimmy's body, battered, bloodstained, dying, was found on the sidewalk under a window of Tokyo's Police Headquarters last July, the Japanese Foreign Office announced that Jimmy had committed suicide (TIME Aug. 5), Jimmy's friends did not believe it. They had no evidence, but they knew Jimmy and they knew the cruelty and deceit of Japanese officialdom...
...BATH-Cecil Roberts-Macmillian ($3). A sentimental journey along the London-Bath express highway by Briton Cecil Roberts, indefatigable World War I correspondent, novelist, lecturer, editor. A pleasant, journalistic exhumation of such folk as John Milton, Highwayman Dick Turpin, Henry VIII, Novelist Samuel Richardson, Pocahontas, the Duchess of Kingston, who two centuries ago attended a ball wearing only a pair of shoes, a sprig...