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...parliamentary committee tried to decide how to tackle the gigantic task of taking over and running the oilfields. U.S. and British diplomats were anxiously trying to guess what was going on inside the Parliament's yellow walls, and inside Mossadeq's eagle-bald head. Sighed one Briton: "We could deal with a reliable blackguard. But how can you deal with an honest fanatic...
...propaganda was also abetted by the pro-Commie weekly National Guardian. Last week it printed a list of 155 names of supposed U.S. P.W.s, the Guardian's seventh such list to date. Several have included statements allegedly from P.W.s condemning the Korean war. Guardian Editor Cedric Belfrage, a Briton who once denied charges by Elizabeth Bentley that he had spied for Russia, claimed that his source of names was the Red-lining China Monthly Review of Shanghai (formerly the China Weekly Review-TIME, July...
Robert Vogeler, 39-year-old assistant vice president of the International Telephone & Telegraph Corp., and its representative for Eastern Europe, was arrested by the Hungarian Communists in November 1949. Arrested and tried with him were Edgar Sanders, a Briton, and five Hungarians. All confessed to being spies, the Communists said...
...confusion of the Crimean War, a bearded, solemn-eyed young Briton jogged along with the armies in a boxlike wagon marked "Photographic Van." He was Roger Fenton, the first war photographer in history, and he succeeded in catching the authentic mood of Crimea (see opposite page) with the same craftsman's touch that Mathew Brady displayed later in the U.S. Civil War. Last week many a Briton was discovering Fenton's genius in a photographic supplement of The Cornhill, literary quarterly founded by William Makepeace Thackeray...
Only a few Hong Kong residents, undeceived by the appearance of normality admitted their concern. Said one Briton, looking down from his Peak apartment at one of loveliest views in the Orient: We all know that some day we shall lose this fair, imperial place. And sometimes I think it would be better to throw it in their bloody teeth now, rather than to give it up inch by inch. But I know we'll never...