Word: buts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Straddling Views. Next day Deputy Leader Aneurin Bevan-with whom Gaitskell had wrangled long hours in his Opposition leader's room behind the Speaker's chair at the House of Commons -rose to deliver a speech of flash and fire that paid affable tribute to Gaitskell but straddled...
John Stuart Mill, in his essay On Liberty, considered eccentricity in a nation's character to be "proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor and moral courage it contained." Britain has always esteemed such doughty dotties as the 19th century Roman Catholic naturalist, Charles Waterton, who devoted his...
De Gaulle's France not only got Spain invited into the Organization for European Economic Cooperation, but helped it get OEEC aid. Last September De Gaulle himself told Spain's Foreign Minister Fernando Maria Castiella y Maiz that "Franco and the Spanish people have rendered great services to...
As burly Sergei Vinogradov was quick to learn after he first arrived in Paris back in 1953, life can be lonely for the Soviet ambassador to a Western capital-even when that capital has a solid Communist minority, ranging from tough factory hands to the mandarins of the Left Bank...
If Vinogradov's performance succeeds better in Paris than the quick-fading charm of his counterpart in Washington, "Smiling Mike" Menshikov, it is partly because Vinogradov is on excellent terms with President Charles de Gaulle. This goes back to 1944, when Vinogradov was ambassador in Ankara. There, one day...