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...cabinet from 1942 to 1945. By temperament, training and conviction, Attlee was as far from being either a spendthrift or a dictator as any man could be. Yet his party's record in power and its program for the future had frightened many a less partisan Briton than Winston Churchill...
Britain's Sir Alexander Cadogan was well entangled with his flamingo. His government has withdrawn recognition from Dr. Tsiang's government, and recognized that of Malik's Communist friends. Yet Sir Alexander voted for Tsiang and against Malik. The Briton spoke acidly of Malik's "valuable cooperation," meaning just the opposite. Sir Alexander said he would not repeat his remark of the previous meeting, that Malik's demand for Tsiang's ouster was "premature." By this Sir Alexander meant that he would repeat his remark...
With Confucian calm, the elderly (65) ambassador entered the high-ceilinged office of youthful (39) Minister of State Hector McNeil. The Briton fingered his necktie in awkward embarrassment, choked up as he began to read a formal note announcing Britain's recognition of Communist China (see below) and the dismissal of the Nationalist Chinese envoy. Cheng interrupted with a gentle gesture of gnarled ivory-hued hands. "We can talk of business later," he said. "Let us first talk as friends...
...industries expropriated was the U.S.-owned subsidiary of the International Telephone and Telegraph Corp. I.T. & T.'s Central European representative, U.S. Citizen Robert Vogeler, and its Budapest manager, Briton Edgar Sanders, were arrested seven weeks ago and charged with organizing a widespread espionage ring. In response to this "arbitrary and inhumane" action, the U.S. has forbidden its citizens to visit Hungary (TIME, Jan. 2), and Britain has broken off trade negotiations with Budapest...
...somehow the joke was not quite so funny west of the Russian border. While Western comrades laughed at the scrupulous Briton and his decent human impulse, some of them also felt a little like crying. Many of them had joined the party in the '20s and '30s with the notion that they were making a better, more decent world only to find that the party was committed to indecent, inhuman calculation...