Word: britons
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...Britons had fallen into the habit of gloom. They queued up in shops whether or not it was necessary. Recently, when an American reproved a British editor for not printing news about U.S. shortages, the Briton replied: "Why, if we told our readers that we aren't so much worse off than the Americans, we'd be depriving ourselves of our last comfort...
...Nominal Sum. The Western powers were busy on their own side of the line. Britain announced that it had undertaken ("for a nominal sum," said one Briton) to equip and help train a new French Air Force. The U.S., pressing for economic unity in Germany, suspended reparations shipments from its zone. The British did not immediately follow suit, but the betting was that ten war plants (including part of the Krupp works at Essen), ready to be shipped to Russia, would not be moved...
Somebody in Britain had made skeptical sounds about low U.S. golf scores (like Byron Nelson's phenomenal 68.3 average last year). The scores were phony, said this Briton, because they were made on easy courses, with the ball teed up on the fairway. No U.S. golfer could say him nay,*but somebody in Britain had to pay for saying...
...came up for examination. As the Lords voted to lend the Lacock Abbey copy of the Great Charter to the U.S., their eye fell on a yoo-odd-year-old mistake. "Hard on the plain man" (says Philologist H. W. Fowler) but dear to the heart of many a Briton is the age-old habit of spelling it "Magna Charta" and pronouncing it "Magna Karta." Last week the Lord Chancellor invited the Lords to drop the h. They...
...Committee of Inquiry into Palestine was established as a body designed to hear both sides of an issue too hot for one nation or even the UN to handle, and then to make a decision on the basis of its hearings. Arab, Jew, Briton, and American voiced approval of its purpose, its personnel, its methods; each rushed to present his side of the case. Yet publication of its report finds the Commission standing alone behind its proposals. Each contesting group is back in its own shell: violently opposed to the recommendations, ignoring them, or unwilling to do anything about them...