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...Occupation. One night, at a party in Occupied Germany, Allen arrived late and paired off, without introductions, with a charming British officer. They slapped each other's backs, swapped drinks and stories until the shank of morning. Next day someone asked Allen whether he knew who the Briton...
Emanuel Shinwell then voiced the concern of many a Briton: "We are not speaking of the America of President Roosevelt or the America of Mr. Henry Wallace.. . . We are dealing with the America of big business, the America of Wall Street, of those who believe that they can use the huge reserves of the United States to adopt an investment policy all over the world and to enable their shipping facilities to respond to that policy...
...long view explains Anglo-Russian attempts to maintain cordial trade-union relations in spite of their failure to interest U.S. trade unionists. A new international federation of labor is in the cards for the postwar years. Sir Walter, like many another Briton and many a Russian official, hopes for a three-way arrangement at the base of such a federation. But he intends to insure at least a two-way understanding...
...precedent standing since 1858. At 60, the scion of a family of generals, the trooper who lost an eye at Ypres, who studied desert tactics under Lord Allenby and applied them triumphantly in the Cyrenaica campaign of 1941, the reader of Socrates, Shakespeare and Browning - this closemouthed, wry-humored Briton took over the Empire's most complex, burdensome political post and became ruler of 390,000,000 people...
...Randolph Churchill fortnight ago (TIME, March 29), Prime Minister Winston Churchill told the House of Commons it was permissible for soldiers on active service to express themselves in print. Last week, the London Evening Standard published a six-column Letter From A Soldier which pungently voiced many a Briton's opinion of talkative politicians...