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...barricaded Jerusalem last week a Briton, about to move into a requisitioned Jewish house, found a laconic note left for him: "My house-your castle." It was a pithy oversimplification of the whole Palestine issue. Last week Britain, unable to work out a division of Palestine's living space between Arabs and Jews, was ready to quit her position as castellan, try to get the United Nations to take over...
...Patel was playing bridge in Ahmedabad's Gujerat Club when he first saw his fellow lawyer Gandhi, fresh from agitational triumphs in South Africa. At that time Patel dressed in fancy Western clothes and affected the manners of the most pukka sahib Briton. When his eyes fell upon Gandhi, Patel interrupted his game long enough to make a few scathing remarks. A year later he joined Gandhi's movement...
...Manhattan, lean, bemonocled Visitor Sax Rohmer, who had been chiefly concerned with Fu Manchu for the past 30 years, listened with professional interest to Soprano Mimi Benzell. She would sing in a new operetta, Chinese Nightingale-new book & lyrics by Sax Rohmer. The show would open in London, but Briton...
...joint U.S. -British objectives in the Middle East [TIME, Dec. 16]: "One angry Briton said: I [Truman] has sold your oil for a mess of New York votes...
...many an adult Briton could bear-and it was too much for one W. Wright-Newsome. He took.his troubles, as Britons will, to the Times of London. Wrote he: "The BBC seems bent on turning the children into a new kind of drug addict. . . . The poor children grow more concerned from day to day about what Dick Barton . . . may do next than about their futures or the future of England. My neighbors confirm that when they turn [him] off . . . their children regard them as . . . tyrannic giants...