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...great, roaring barrel of a man, King Henry VIII of England, decided to end his marriage with his Spanish queen. He was confident of support from Rome, where he had already been hailed as "Defender of the Faith" for his writings against the protestantism of Martin Luther, but Pope Clement VII refused an annulment. On this issue of supremacy, Henry VIII defied the Church of Rome...
Well Back, Please. Inevitably, Norstad's proposal met with less than unanimous welcome. British Socialist John Strachey, onetime Minister of War under Clement Attlee, nervously declared that the West's nuclear strength should be placed "well back," preferably "on the other side of the Atlantic." French spokesmen made it plain that, with or without the Norstad proposal, De Gaulle intends to go on building his own atomic capacity. There were questions, too, about the plan's feasibility. It would require congressional amendment of the McMahon Atomic Energy Act. And no one was quite sure just how, under...
...tulip beds of The Netherlands and bomb explosions muffled in the soft sands of Dunkirk, the series is much more than newsreel shots and selected quotes. Its staff of nearly 250 has also collected brief, extraordinary commentaries from the low and the mighty of the Churchill years-housewives. Tommies, Clement Attlee, Eisenhower, Truman, De Gaulle. One of the best offers a light footnote to dark tension. A Thames boatman remembers his Channel crossing for the Dunkirk evacuation 20 years ago, says he finished off a bawtla whisky on the way 'ome. "The wife said, 'Are you tired...
Although the number of visitors using the station's facilities has dropped slightly since the Castro government came to power, Duncan Clement, director of the Atkins Garden and Research Laboratory, saw little significance in the decline, which he claimed might be the result of many factors...
...Limited to 24 living persons. Among the present members: ex-Prime Ministers Winston Churchill and Clement Attlee, Poet T. S. Eliot...